Yeah, it's 70, not 80. Not sure what I was thinking there, and now it's too late to edit my original comment. Anyway, the "Swing" assignments are there in the

Yeah, it's 70, not 80. Not sure what I was thinking there, and now it's too late to edit my original comment. Anyway, the "Swing" assignments are there in the sequence for four reasons: 1) To break up the monotony a little bit. 2) To give them more practice copying details accurately. 3) To make them say, "That was kind of cool." 4) To explain why we're not doing "real" programs (a.k.a. GUI) yet. "It takes that much code just to display a blank window on the screen? Guess I can live with the command prompt a while longer."