After completing Java 1.2: Putting Your Skills to Work the user should be able to:

	Use classes that act as a die or a calculator
	Put together a sample game for a Web site
	Animate an image background
	Place images on the screen edges

Responding to User Events

	Getting your programs to listen
	Setting up components to be heard
	Handling user events
	Workshop: A little lotto madness

Playing Games with Java

	Craps
	Organizing the program
	Creating a die class
	Testing the die class

Writing a Game for the Web

	Creating an applet
	Create variables to use
	Setting up variables and the initial display
	Displaying text and graphics
	Handling user input
	Checking roll results and keeping score
	Putting the program on a page

Spicing Up a Web Page

	The Pan applet
	Displaying the images
	Workshop: Drawing images over a screen's edge

Making Your Knowledge Add Up

	A calculating class
	Creating the interface
	Responding to user events
	Solving problems
	Trying out the program

This course has the following features:

	Exercises that allow users to practice programming in Java
	A file containing the text of the exercises
	Simulations that allow users to practice course skills even if they don't have access to a Java 2 Software Development Kit
	A glossary
	A Skill Assessment

	Java 1.2: Writing Java Programs (JVVC01)
	Java 1.2: Java Programming Basics (JVVC02)
	Java 1.2: Using Objects and Arrays (JVVC03)
	Java 1.2: Creating Java Applets (JVVC04)
	Java 1.2: Graphics and User Events (JVVC05)

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