This repository contains coding examples related to Roy Vanegas’s section of Fundamentals of Computing I, CS 114, at The University of Hartford. In-class coding examples (in-class-examples) reside alongside pre-written examples from the textbook (textbook-examples).

Every single example in this repo was formatted and modified according to the majority of rules defined by Google in the Google Java Style Guide, including curly brace usage, whitespace, and two-space indentation. Thus, these examples differ from the textbook examples. Students must use the enclosed copies of the textbook examples, not those provided by the publisher.

Each example was also tested using make on macOS Monterey (12.6.2) and Windows 10 using the Java 19.01 JDK and the JavaFX 19 SDK. Bash was used in macOS; PowerShell 7 and Cygwin were used in Windows.

Graphics using Java via the JavaFX library are covered at the end of every chapter in the textbook. However, I don’t cover graphics until the end of the semester. Consequently, all JavaFX-related examples have been moved to the folder textbook-examples/javafx, while all non-JavaFX examples reside in the textbook-examples/non-javafx folder.

Many programs in this repo have a Makefile. However, you’ll need to use javac and java to compile and run some programs. Here are the rules for how a Makefile is included in a program:

1. If two or more non-JavaFX files are required to run a program, then the files that make up the program have their own folder and Makefile.
2. If the program is a JavaFX program, then the program has its own folder and its own Makefile, regardless of whether it requires two or more files to work.

Each Makefile in every JavaFX-related example has two lines related to the PATH_TO_FX variable. One behind a comment (#) and one exposed:

# PATH_TO_FX = "C:\Program Files\Java\javafx-sdk-19\lib"
PATH_TO_FX = /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/javafx-sdk-19/lib

If you’re a macOS user, the Makefiles are ready to use; you needn’t do anything.

If you’re a Windows user, you’ll need to remove the exposed variable on line 2 above, then uncomment the first line by removing the hash (#) and the space character that follows it. (This assumes you’ve placed the JavaFX 19 library (javafx-sdk-19) in C:\Program Files\Java.)