Enzymind Labs

The integrated development environment (IDE) used during classes is NetBeans, but there are many other options. Any Java reference book is handy. The following links are web resources that I have used and showed in class.

Sun documentation:

Java 2 SDK documentation

Search the Java 2 SDK

Learning the Java Language: Tutorials on a variety of topics.

Creating a GUI with Swing

The string class

I/O (input/output) from the command line, standard streams and the command line

Other examples, tutorials and documentation:

Game Programming Crash Course (for J2ME) , a tutorial on how to program pong (or any 2-D game) for a cell phone.

If you fulfill these requirements, you're all set for completing this course:

• You DO NOT have to own a fancy mobile phone to write and play this game
• A computer with Windows
• An interest in learning something new
• Some Java programming experience (or ability to understand code easily, if you're used to Visual Basic, C#, C or C++ you should be home free)
• NO game programming experience required

This game programming course will take you through everything required to learn game programming in J2ME. The process will be like this:

• Tools Setup: Setting up the environment, this used to be one of the hardest parts to complete
• MIDlet: Programming the foundation of your game
• Background: Rudimentary painting on the screen
• Sprites: Adding and moving sprites
• Collision Detection: Make the ball bounce
• User Input: How to handle user input
• Artificial Intelligence: How to create a stupid computer-controlled opponent
• Optimization: Add score to the game 

A list of Java resources

Applets and Basic Graphics, a tutorial with a basic graphic application. We are modifiing and extending this example in class. This .pdf is also attached. The code and other resources are available at Chapter 9: Applets and Basic Graphics.

Java Programming Resources: Table of Contents , a list of pointers to a wide variety of examples and other resources

Example Java applications

Core Web Programming book, source code for a wide variety of kinds of short example programs

Another Java Strings tutorial

Input text from the console

Example code

Very short graphics applet code