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Fr. Chris Started this wiki to help with the exchange of information for helping you ask and answer questions about labs and AP Computer Science Questions.

Quotes

A programmer is sent to the grocery store with instructions to "buy butter and see whether they have eggs, if they do, then buy a dozen." Returning with 12 butters, the programmer says, "they had eggs."
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
You can't make a program without broken egos.
Q: Why did the programmer quit his job? A: Because he didn't get arrays.
Programming is 10% science, 25% ingenuity and 65% getting the ingenuity to work with the science.
When Shakespeare asked, "To be, or not to be?," he did not provide the answer. But computer science can! The answer is FF. ( 2B || !2B = FF .. in binary 001001011 OR 110110100=11111111)
Chuck Norris can delete the Recycling Bin.
When Chuck Norris throws exceptions, it’s across the room.
Have you heard about the new Cray super computer? It’s so fast, it executes an infinite loop in 6 seconds.

Getting Started Links

Lifted Pixar's insight into taking computer science exams
Download page for Java JDK for Windows/Linux (not needed for Mac OSX before October 2010) (See Windows Video)
Info on OSX Lion here
Download page for BlueJ IDE (See Getting Started with BlueJ Video)
Download page for Eclipse IDE for Java Developers (See Getting Started with Eclipse Video)
Download Gridword Code
Download Gridworld Student Manual (you need a pdf reader)
Download AP Exam Quick Reference
Download APCS "Acorn" Book
http://www.javabat.com
Gridworld Bug Battle
Online interactive edition of a AP Comp Sci A Study Guide
Litvin's "Be Prepared for The APCS" Study Guide
Pair Programming Video
Extreme Programming

A. Topics by Chapter

B. Labs

C. GridWorld

D. Squint Library Projects

E. Other Projects

F. AP Free Response Questions

G. Applets

H. Final Projects

I. Final Projects from Yesteryear

J. FRC

AP Annual Conf 2011

Question: Is there a way to get e-mails when someone changes something here at the APCSWiki?

Answer: By using the services at http://www.watchthatpage.com/ You can watch any page and send the changes to that page as an e-mail to one or more people. This works very well on the AllRecentChanges page for monitoring a whole wiki. As it is a completely separate service, there is no change required to the monitored wiki, so you could use it to monitor our wiki, http://apcs.mathorama.com/apcswiki/index.php

Goto http://www.watchthatpage.comand create a user account.
Add a new watched web page. Go to "Pages" and add the wiki's AllRecentChanges page. The url is http://apcs.mathorama.com/index.php?n=Site.AllRecentChanges
Add the times the e-mails will be sent out, e.g. daily at 6.am or twice-daily etc. This is under the "Profile" tabs
We have a Sandbox, so you may want to exclude changes to the Sandbox pages from being e-mailed out. To do that, add a filter on each paragraph that contain the word 'Sandbox'.
We have dynamically changing content on our page footer (the time) so you may need to add further filters to ignore those changes, or remove them from the RecentChanges page.
Add additional recipients of the e-mails, say if you want it sent to multiple e-mail accounts, or your less talented friends who cant figure out how to do this.

That's it! Multiple edits to the same page will not result in multiple lines in the RecentChanges page, hence won't result in multiple lines in the e-mails. If no changes are made, no changes occur on the RecentChanges page and no e-mail is sent out.

"Now what?" Links

iPhone Development Course at Stanford (iTunesU link)
Developing Apps for iOS (iTunesU link)
Developing Android Apps with Java book and videos by Tony Hillerson
Learn Java for Android Development| Online Tutorial
Android Developer SDK

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