Welcome message - and first lecture.

Hi everyone in INF5510.

First, a warm welcome - the first lecture is January 18th, at 10:15am - 12noon in Java, OJD.

And then a lot of practical information:

This is a learning-by-doing course - I lecture, but lots of what you will learn, you will learn by doing, i.e., writing programs. And running them on a real distributed system - not just a few machines in the basement of Ole-Johan Dahls Hus, but computer distributed all over the world (well, most of the world - not Antartica - but all other continents :) ).

The course format is that I lecture intensively at the start of the course - so that you have enough info to get to some real programming. So I will not follow the traditional 2hours/week format, but rather grab some long days - we will discuss this at the first lecture.

The web site for the V?r 2017 version of the course is under construction, but the course will look very MUCH like last year - if it is not broken, don't fix it! Thus you can download most of the course material from last year - albeit Emerald is still unrivaled as a distributed OO language, it is 30 years old. You can also download the basic Emerald implementation - it runs on most anything because it is interpreted.

If you have any concerns or questions, send me mail at IFI, my e-mail is ericbj.

Looking forward to seeing you all on Wednesday :)

    -- Eric