John English Senior Lecturer School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences Email: je@brighton.ac.uk or: J.English@brighton.ac.uk Phone: (+44) 1273 642672 Fax: (+44) 1273 642405

I have been teaching at the University of Brighton since 1985. My interests cover programming systems in general, including programming languages, operating systems, computer architecture, hardware design, networks, real-time systems and object-oriented programming.

My CV is here.

Active projects:

• Ada 95: the Craft of Object-Oriented Programming. This introductory textbook was previously published by Prentice Hall but is now out of print, so I've released it as an online textbook.

• BURKS, the Brighton University Resource Kit for Students. This is an online copy of a non-profit CD-ROM set for Computer Science students, and was the winner of the University of Brighton Innovation Award in 1997. At only £7.50 for a set of 4 CDs, how can you resist?

• GnatIDE (185K), a graphical IDE for the Windows port of the GNAT Ada 95 compiler which is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It will infer filenames automatically from Ada modules, and has tools for source code reformatting and generating package body skeletons.

• JavaIDE (172K), a graphical IDE for Java development on Windows systems which can be used to develop applications or applets. It can be used with the Sun SDK, IBM's Jikes compiler or GJ (Generic Java, an extended version of Java). It will infer filenames automatically from Java classes, and has tools for source code reformatting and generating skeleton HTML pages for applets.

• JEWL, an Ada 95 windowing library (currently only for Windows) designed for use by novices.

• JEWL for Java, a Java version of JEWL (a windowing library designed for use by novices) which is similar to the Ada version of JEWL but not identical.

• Other Java resources, including a spreadsheet written in Java for use as a case study.

• FOLDOC document linker which generates hyperlinks from an HTML document to the BURKS version of the Free Online Dictionary of Computing, so you can annotate teaching material with links to the dictionary definitions of terminology that you're introducing for the first time.

Old projects:

• C++ class libraries for DOS (TSR classes, coroutines, multithreading and XMS classes). These all include full source code. They were built using Borland C++ 3.1, which did not implement exceptions, so will not work with later compilers unless exception handling is disabled.

• Demon, a firmware debugger/monitor system for 68000/68010 single board computers written in pre-ANSI C.