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Do any of these programs, and actually plan them out (UML, GUI sketches, etc.) ahead of time.

JExcel supports up to Excel 2003 (check this) API: http://jexcelapi.sourceforge.net/ Tutorial for API: http://www.andykhan.com/jexcelapi/tutorial.html Apache POI supports all Office up to 2008 from what I found. API: http://poi.apache.org/

I'm hesitant to post this so just remember that your instructor can find this just as fast as you can. import java.io.IOException; import java.util.Scanner; // lang import is redundant public class Main { public static final String PATH = "path"; public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException { // try …

ACM ICPC only lets you code in Java, C, and C++. There maybe more, but they are all compiled languages for certain though last year they started a small scripting language section it was separate from the actual contest and experimental. If you are teaching yourself from scratch I would …

Read this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanf_format_string

There's a great book from Malik on intro to C++, and other languages for that matter, here's the link. http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Program-Design-Including-Structures/dp/1133526322

The character 0 is not the same as a ' ' which has the ascii value of 32: http://www.asciitable.com/