MindView MiniProjects

Perform one of these to earn a solution guide. Email the results here

• Create an external CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) for "Thinking in Java, 3rd Edition"

  Download the book here.

• Create a supplemental exercise for "Thinking in Java" that I can use.

  Please note that you must create a usable exercise in order to qualify.

  A significant challenge here is to create an exercise that can be solved, in particular, it shouldn't be too hard (in my experience, it's difficult to make exercises that are too easy).

  An easy way to do this is to find a section of a book chapter that doesn't appear to have an associated exercise at the end of the chapter, and create one. In addition, you may see existing exercises that make you think of new ones.

  Note that this should involve some creativity and insight in the process. I'm looking for something inspired and well-thought-out. I'm not just looking for anything that could possibly qualify as an exercise, but rather something that moves the readers minds forward and inspires them.

  One thing you might try is to hunt through other books and see if you see exercises or examples that might inspire you to write an interesting exercise (of course, it cannot be just a copy of someone else's work).

• Create an exercise for "Thinking in C++, 2nd Edition Volume 2" that I can use

  See above.

• Solve one of these JavaScript problems:

  Please note this must be a completely cross-platform solution, across browsers and operating systems. Windows/IE, Windows/Netscape/Mozilla/Opera, Linux, Macintosh. The Windows tags are fairly easy, but Linux, in particular, is a problem and seems fairly undocumented (as far as we've been able to tell).

  • Create a piece of JavaScript which locates the default MP3 player for the current system, puts the player controls into the web page, and starts the player on a given file. Thus, instead of being forced to use the RealPlayer, this tag will use whatever player the user has configured for their computer.