CS190 Resources

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Course materials will primarily live online, and this section will be updated regularly. In addition to this page, we will have a mailing list for course announcements (cs190000-list AT mathcs DOT emory DOT edu) that will be archived for your reference.

• share directory: daily notes are organized in folders according to the date. Solutions are in "solutions," and labs are in "labs"
• Mailing list archive
• Math/CS Computing Lab hours Math/CS Computing Lab hours
• lab groups (through lab8)
  • Amaad, Neel*
  • Chinedu, Dustin*, Maxim
  • Jacob, Henry*, John
  • Cynthia, Devan*
  • Le, Andrew*, Sean
  • Noah, John*, Matt
• lab groups (labC onwards)
  • Amaad, Neel*, John
  • Chinedu, Dustin*, Noah
  • Cynthia*, Devan, Maxim
  • Andrew*, Le, Sean
  • Henry, John L.*, Matt

• OP's Robotics and Tech RSS feed

• NI's online "interactive" NXT-G tutorial
• Dale Yocum's NXT tutorials: these are the assignend tutorials for the beginning of the course
• NXTLOG: LEGO's site hosting a massive collection of user projects
• nxtasy: a very nice Mindstorms NXT site with a great repository of projects (including the dominobot we saw), tools, and information

• Tribot Radar: uses the sonar to produce a map of the tribot's vicinity

(Video) Tutorials:

1. Running BlueJ with leJOS on the lab machines
2. Installing the Java Development Kit (JDK) in Windows
3. Installing BlueJ (install the JDK first)
4. Installing leJOS on OS X

API documentation:

• leJOS NXT API
• Full Java API

Tutorials:

• Introduction to Computer Science using Java: begin here!
• Don't Fear the OOP [PDF]: a nice introduction to object-oriented programming
• What is an Object?: part of Sun's Java Tutorials
• Brewing Java: A Tutorial

Electronic Textbooks:

• Develop leJOS programs Step by Step
• Introduction to Programming Using Java

Exercise packets:

1. Introduction to writing and executing Java programs
2. Data Types and while loops
3. Control Statements

• Sun JDK 6: Java Development Kit which contains the 'javac' compiler and a complete Java development kit; download the plain vanilla "JDK 6 Update X," where X is some number.
• BlueJ: use in conjunction with the JDK to write and explore Java programs