In D Term of 2000, during my senior year at the Academy in CS 2136 (Paradigms of Computation), I wrote a Java stopwatch for a homework assignment. It wasn’t an especially wonderful stopwatch I didn’t think; it just met the extra-credit spec and had a lap counter. So, my program assignment was up on my web site at WPI for the years I was there. Every once in a while, like every 9–18 months, I’d get an email from a random person letting me know how much they liked my stopwatch. One of them was even from some guy at Intel who was using my stopwatch to help him build something there. At one point, I was even the first hit on Google for “java stopwatch”, which was quite a surprise.

So ever since I left WPI it hasn’t been up, so I figured I’d put it back up on my personal site and see if it gets a lot of use again.

Behold, the Java stopwatch.