You can download Sun's Java 2 Standard Edition Software Development Kit (J2SE SDK 1.4.2) at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html You will probably want to get the Documentation also. The SDK is about 45 MB, and the documentation is about 35 MB.
I have found JCreator to be an easy IDE to use. Download JCreator 2.50 LE. Another
good IDE is Gel, available at http://www.gexperts.com/
You may also wish to try jGRASP, a development environment that will work with Ada, C++, and Java and will run on Windows, Linux and other operating systems. It can be downloaded from http://www.eng.auburn.edu/grasp
After you finish Assignment #1, contact me to schedule the first test.
After you finish Assignment #2, contact me to schedule the final
exam.