Technobits — the Blog

Office 2007 files can be opened in earlier versions of Office using the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack.  Read this entry at Freeware Genius to find out how to do this.

I’ve heard from a lot of you that you’re having trouble emailing your Alice assignments to me because the attached files are getting blocked for being too large.  It’s especially been a problem for folks using Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo! Mail.
If this happens to you, you’ve got two options.  You can burn your final assignment [...]

The application program needs to be GUI-based.

Import the classes java.awt.Graphics and javax.swing.JApplet.
Make the class for the program extend JApplet instead of JFrame.
Change the constructor method of the application to a method named init, that returns a void value.
Remove the setTitle( ), setSize( ), and setVisible( ) methods from the program.
Get rid of the main( ) [...]

It’s worth poking around through the different objects to find out what they can do.  Not all objects are created equal.  For instance, if you use the he/she builder, they come with a walk method.  The penguin can walk, the cat can do a couple different functions, etc.  This may make programming more “real” animation [...]