CSC8303 -- Bioinformatics Programming in Java

I use a few parts of specific markup in these notes. For those of you on my other modules, they should be familiar, but you may wish to scan these pages for any differences.

Most of the text has no specific typography and looks like this. It is mostly meant to be descriptive, introducing the key topics.

This is something that you are supposed to do. If you see this sort of writing, then you need to do something to the machine you are working on. If you get stuck and it all goes wrong, these marks will also help you to go back to the beginning and do everything again.

If you need to write something down and hand it in, then it will be marked up like this.

If I want to ask a self-help question, then it looks like this. You SHOULD try and answer these questions. If you can't answer them, then you probably want to read the previous information or ask for help.

If I want to emphasize that this is an important point, then it looks like this.

If I need to write Java code then it will look like this:

  System.out.println( "Like this...." );

Although this looks like an image, it's just plain text; you can cut-and-paste it freely. The colours indicate the syntax. So the light red means that it's a String.

If I need to write a short piece of Java code in text then they will be in Monotype fonts. So, in the last paragraph, light red means that it's a java.lang.String.