February 22, 2004

From ACM Technews:

Dozens of high-tech innovations, ranging from small PCs to blogging tools
to “augmented reality” software, were spotlighted at the Demo conference in
Scottsdale, Ariz. Perhaps the most incredible product on display was Total
Immersion’s D’Fusion software, which uses Windows XP hardware to render …
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2004-6/0220f.html#item4

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From ACM Technews:

Programmer Rael Dornfest keeps track of IT innovation and innovators as
part of his job putting together O’Reilly & Associates’ Emerging Technology
Conferences. He says the key to understanding technology trends is to find
the trend-setters, or alpha geeks, that are widely recognized by their …
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2004-6/0220f.html#item10

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We get to postpone finals for juniors in CS161 to the normal time.
Wheee! I feel so much better now.

Of course, this gives us time to make really nasty tests… <evil
grin> CS students can expect lots of problem-solving, as we’re
_supposed_ to know this.

No MIS student qualified for exemption.

The following students are to take the CS161 final exam on Thursday.
They can e-mail me at sacha@free.net.ph to find out their pre-final
grade and what they need to score in order to attain a target letter
grade.

Thought I’d help my pet baby green dragons out by casting sleep on the priest. This, apparently, is a Very Bad Idea.

import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;

/**
 * Demo class for arrays
 * @author Sacha Chua (sacha@free.net.ph)
 * @date 22-Feb-2004
 */

public class ReallySimpleAddressBook extends Applet implements ActionListener
{
    private Button set;
    private Button show;
    private TextField index;
    private TextField name;
    private String names[];

    public void init()
    {
        names = new String[10];
        set = new Button("Set");
        show = new Button("Show");
        set.addActionListener(this);
        show.addActionListener(this);

        index = new TextField();
        name = new TextField();
        Label label1 = new Label("Index:");
        Label label2 = new Label("Name:");

        setLayout(new GridLayout(3, 2));
        add(label1);
        add(index);
        add(label2);
        add(name);
        add(set);
        add(show);

    }

    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
    {
        if (e.getSource() == set)
        {
            int i = Integer.parseInt(index.getText());
            names[i] = name.getText();
        }
        if (e.getSource() == show)
        {
            int i = Integer.parseInt(index.getText());
            name.setText(names[i]);
        }
    }
}

../../tmp/ReallySimpleAddressBook.java