Lab - Mechanics of Java Programming

Objectives

1. To make sure you know how to "log on".

2. To establish your computer environment
   so that you will be in a positon to develop
   programs in the prescribed manner.

3. To engage you in the development
   (writing and running) of a simple Java
   application program - in the prescribed
   manner.

4. To introduce you to the notion of a
   precondition.

5. To raise your consciousness relative
   to the what (declarative), the how
   (procedural), and the why (explanatory)
   forms of expression, in a natural setting.

6. To expose you to the use of metasymbols
   for descriptive purposes.