August 25, 2025 — First day of class is canceled

Eric and his wife welcomed a new baby last night and so he will not be able to welcome you all to class on Monday, August 25th. In lieu of coming to class please do the following:

Read through the syllabus.
Try downloading and running the MARS simulator. In order to run it, you need to have a Java development environment already installed on your computer, which you might already have. If not, you can follow these instructions. While this might not work for everyone, please give it a shot.
Work on this small warm-up exercise. I was planning to spend a few minutes in the first class having you work on it in groups, but try it on your own and write down your solution or ideas to bring to the next class meeting.

August 27, 2025 — We are having class today and are back to the normal schedule.

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Instructor

Eric Manley
Professor of Computer Science
Drake University

Office Hours

Schedule in Calendly the day before or drop in
MW 9:45-11:30am

Installing Java JDK

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In this class, we will be using several programs written in Java. If you already have the Java JDK installed, no need to follow these instructions. If you do need to install the Java JDK on your local machine, I recommend OpenJDK which is fully open source. To download it, follow these instructions:

Go to https://adoptium.net/temurin/releases/?version=11 and select the appropriate version of the JDK for your operating system (Windows, MacOS, etc.) and architecture.
Navigate to the installer file, execute it, and follow the instructions to install the Java JDK on your local machine. I recommend keeping all the default settings in the installer.
If you get a security message, you may need to go into your security settings and allow your computer to run the installer.