The purpose of this first laboratory project is to give you some hands-on experience editing and compiling a Java program. This will not only familiarize you with the software that will be used in your course but will also elaborate on some of the concepts introduced in this chapter. The objectives of this exercise are
Don't worry that you won't understand all of the Java code in the applet. We'll eventually get to language details in subsequent chapters.
This applet plays a silly game with the user. Every time the user clicks on the button labeled ``Click Me Not!'' the applet button's label changes to ``Click Me!'' and vice versa. If you want to try this applet, its URL is