The
AWT Tutorial
Copyright 1995 by Nelson Yu
Table of Contents
About this Tutorial
This tutorial has been re-written to accommodate applets as well as applications. The previous
tutorial focused on the latter and ignored the former due to the
author's original disgust at such 'toys', but have now seen the light
and decided applets can be extremely useful for educational
purposes(among other things).
Please read the "Introduction to the AWT" before reading this tutorial.
This tutorial assumes some knowledge of the AWT already, not to mention
Java!. Also it is a good idea to get your hands on the JDK(Java
Developers Kits) and printed documentation of the AWT classes.
Picking up a book on Java is also a good idea, unfortunately I can't
recommend any on the shelves at the moment.
Go here to start learning
the "how-tos" of Java
These HTML documents are Java Enhanced
Here are the tar/gzipped files I promised.
I'm also looking for someone to put these on a FTP site so those without graphical
browsers(or WWW access) can get them.
[Sites found and will be posted in the next few days]
Copyrights and Trademarks
This document is copyrighted 1995 by Nelson Yu. Free redistribution will be allowed as long as the document
is not modified and the copyright message here remains. Portions of this document are straight from Sun Microsystems, thus are copyrighted by them.
Portions are from Sun
Microsystem's tutorials on Java
HotJava(tm), Java(tm) and Duke are the sole Trademarks of
Sun Microsystems
With a little help from my friends
I did not write this tutorial alone. I had help from the following
people, who either supplied code or helped in debugging code.
Revision History
- Sept 23/95: First AWT Tutorial released for alpha3
- Oct 2/95: Second(revised) AWT Tutorial for pre-beta1 JDK
- Nov 29/95: AWT Tutorial 2.0 for JDK Beta
Future:
- Post tar/gzip/zip file this weekend Dec 8-11
- Add to or correct some parts of the tutorial
- Write Quiz.
Nelson Yu
nelson@cs.ualberta.ca
Last modified: Dec 20 1995