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programmingMS 2011
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Today the students were learning about Java. They learned how to compile and troubleshoot with it. After that the students were taught how to lay out their applet. They learned about the different parts that made up the applet and how those parts would fit together. Then the class started to actually code those parts to each other in the main applet window. They created sliders and labels and put them together so that they would eventually work together dynamically. They also added panels full of buttons. The students then had to use the shell script, which is a script written in a programming language called shell that can execute many commands by having you simply type a few actions. They used this to compile their java scripts and debug their code if it gave any errors while compiling. If the code had errors, the staff would work with the student with the code errors to fix the errors. If not, the students had to test their applets to make sure everything came out the way they wanted it to. The students also learned that they need to pay extra attention to all the little things, because a lot of the students had issues with compiling their applets because of a single missing character. The applet simply would return an error and not continue to be compiled.