Some Ways of Learning about the String Class - Identified by Students on Minute Papers

• Look it up in the book (p 89, and Appendix.)
• Find other programs similar to the one that you are writing and model your program after that.
• Ask the professor
• If you type an object variable name, and then a dot, a list of methods pops up, so you can see what’s available (names of methods usually make sense (MAR))
• Study the actual String library (presumably the code MAR)
• Use the help (MAR – The IDE’s help is largely about the IDE reather than about Java)

Note also that Sun’s WWW site has documentation on all of the classes at: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/

Also note, that if you were a professional Java programmer, you might want to have handy a big, thick reference book – designed for looking things up (as opposed to just starting off at the beginning like a text book.