Java for Sound and Music is a brilliant module, but it is not the easiest module, especially if you're at all uncertain about the Java you learned last year. However, you can maximise your chances of success by:
If you find it difficult to cope then ASK FOR HELP. You can ask me or one of your fellow students.
DO NOT stop attending classes. This is the WORST thing you can do, as it turns a possible problem into a guaranteed fail.
Unless you have worked as a professional programmer for at least ten years, you have plenty of things to learn! Lectures start off easy but get more difficult fairly quickly. Many students make the mistake of not attending any more classes just because they completely understood the first lecture!
Some of the stronger students stop attending classes, because they think I have nothing to teach them. Unfortunately, they find out too late that the course has left them behind.
At the moment, there is no suitable text book for this course, so I am currently writing one! You will be able to download copies of each chapter from Blackboard.
Lectures will be based around PowerPoint presentations, and you can download and print off copies of the slides from here. Note that you will require WinZip or similar to unzip the files, and Acrobat Viewer to look at them and print them:
Download Lecture Notes (Zip file - 1.9MB)
It's probably been a few months since you've used Netbeans, so to help you out and get you back into the swing of things, I've prepared some introductory work-sheets for Java/Netbeans. You should work through these in the first few weeks of semester one
The assignment can now be found on Blackboard.
MidiMapperPanel API Reference
Bob Lang
Jan 2012