[5615] in java-interest
Re: Java Beginner's First Steps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Siju Nair)
Mon Feb 19 08:10:29 1996
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 17:16:12 +0000 (GMT)
From: Siju Nair <nair@BITS.soft.net>
To: David Bailey <dbailey7@ix.netcom.com>
cc: java-interest@java.sun.com, shades@usa1.com, darkelord@aol.com,
MREEVES@pipeline.com
In-Reply-To: <199602181826.KAA22980@ix2.ix.netcom.com>
Hello,
Thanks a lot for all that you are doing . If we the java mailing
people don't help our guys who will help us. Let the good work go on.
Bye
H.Siju
>On Sun, 18 Feb 1996, David Bailey wrote:
> Just a few weeks ago I sought from you all help in getting
> documentation and advice on learning Java in a WIN 95 environment. I
> did not know any concepts pertaining to object oriented programming,
> had not yet then seen any Java code, had no Java-enabled browser, and
> didn't even know vaugely related stuff like what an HTML formated
> document was.
>
> In the hope of assisting others who are now at the stage I was at then
> and who might be using the same platform, I offer the following brief
> progress report on my journey into learning Java.
>
> I knew I had to start with documentation. A few of you pointed me at
> Sun's FTP site: ftp://ftp.javasoft.com. There in the /docs area I
> found all the documentation that a beginner could ever want:
> Development Kit API stuff (JDK-1_0-APIDOCS.zip), Turorial
> (tutorial.html.zip), etc., etc.
>
> After I downloaded and PKUNZIPed 'everything' with a .zip ending, I
> tried to read it with NETCOM NetCruiser's browser. That was
> unsuccessful because firstly, unzipping truncated filenames and
> extensions, and secondly the NETCOM browser is not Java-enabled.
> Another java-interest tipster pointed me in the direction of Netscape's
> FTP site(s):ftp[1-7].netscape.com. Where, in their
> /2.0goldbeta1/windows area, I downloaded the latest Netscape
> Java-enabled browser.
>
> NETCOM allows launching of internet apps, as long as they're 16-bit
> ones, which Netscape V2.0 isn't, so I ended up having to run Netscape
> stand-alone and accessing my HTML docs locally. But first I had to
> unzip them properly with unzip.exe which I downloaded from the ftp
> site: ftp.uu.net and the /pub/archgive/zip/win32 area.
>
> Just before solving this last problem, I read a java-interst message
> from Bill Bercik announcing that he'd made available the Java(TM)
> documentation in Win Help format at: htp://www.dippybird.com/java.html.
> What a great service!
>
> I am now happily Win Helping myself to the Java documentation and
> browsing through the Java tutorial. I now understand the difference
> between an object and a class, know what html format means, and am
> about to write my first ("Hello World") Java application and applet.
> Maybe by the time my two year old learns ho to read, I'll be an
> accomplished Java developer. Hmmmm ... Mind boggling, n'est pas?
> DB
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