92053 CSC 1024N --Introduction to Programming Fall 2011 HYBRID COURSE Meets selected Tuesdays, 1:55 pm -- 4:36 pm, Brookhaven A204 6 Sep 2011, 20 Sep 2011, 4 Oct 2011, 18 Oct 2011, 1 Nov 2011, 15 Nov 2011, 29 Nov 2011, 6 Dec 2011 Herbert J. Bernstein ( ) Assignments

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All assignments are to be submitted as text-only email or posted on the web and submitted by email containing the URL of the assignment to: with absolutely no attachments. No assignments will be accepted late. No assignments will be accepted on paper. No assignments will be accepted on diskettes. An assignment is late if the email is sent after the start of the class at which it is due. The grade for the assignment will be sent back to the email address from which the assignment email was sent. In the case of group assignments in which multiple students are involved, one student should be the sender of the email and the other students should be listed both in the email "CC:" list and in the body of the message.

Students should check this page frequently for updates.

Important notes for Mac OSX 10.5 users

You may have difficulty in running Java 6 programs under Mac OSX 10.5. The best solution is to upgrade the java on you mac to Java 6. In addition to choosing Java 6 using the Java Preferences utility, you will need to add code to your ~/.profile:

JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Home
export JAVA_HOME
PATH="$JAVA_HOME/bin:${PATH}"
export PATH

Alternatively, you can still compile with Java 5. We have planted a Java 5 compiler and virtual machine on arcib at

/usr/local/java/bin/javac
/usr/local/java/bin/java

• Assignment #1, assigned Tuesday, 6 September 2011, due Tuesday, 20 September 2011.
   
  
  • If you have not already done so, create a Sourceforge account and a Google Sites account to have a reliable place to store your work for this course.
  • If you have not already done so, be sure to activate your arcib account.
  • If you are unsure of your skill with Python, refresh your recollection with one of the online courses, e.g. Khan Academy or the MIT open courseware.
  • Get your textbooks and bring them to the next class.
  • Read the Hubbard Text through Chapter 6. By read, we mean read every word and do every problem. To do the problems you will need to install a java development environment on your computer. See Oracle Java SE Downloads
  • Read the relevant links of the course syllabus web page.
  • On or before 13 September 2011, take the quiz at http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/.dowling/CSC1024F11/CSC1024_Quiz_1.html. Be prepared to discuss your answers in the next class.
  • Read the Hubbard Text to the end. By read, we mean to read every word and do every problem.
  • Read the relevant links of the course syllabus web page.
  • Before the class on 20 September 2011, take the quiz at http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/.dowling/CSC1024F11/CSC1024_Quiz_2.html. Be prepared to discuss your answers in class.
  • Bring your laptop or netbook to class.
  • Get your notebook and start taking notes.
  • Form a study group.

• Assignment #2, assigned Tuesday, 20 September 2011, due Tuesday, 4 October 2011.
   
  
  • In preparation for the work we will do next month, start reading the Brackeen text. By Tuesday, 4 October, you are to have read Chapters 1 through 5 of Brackeen, covering at least Chapters 1 and 2 before 27 September and 3, 4 and 5 by 4 October.
  • You now should have read all of Hubbard. If you have not already done so, go back and do all of assignment 1, above. Our objective for this period is to work on java applets (chapter 14 in Hubbard), and you have to understand all the material in Hubbard to do that.
  • Go to http://www.landofcode.com/java-tutorials and do the full set of tutorials and take the Java quiz as many times as you have to until you can get a perfect score. Again our objective is to work on applets (the first tutorial under Java extras), but as with Hubbard, you need to understand all the rest of the material to understand applets.
  • Read the relevant links of the course syllabus web page.
  • On or before 27 September 2011, take the quiz at http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/.dowling/CSC1024F11/CSC1024_Quiz_3.html. Be prepared to discuss your answers in the next class.
  • Using what you have learned, prepare a java applet that converts the temperature in Fahrenheit to the temperature in Celsius and vice-versa and post the resulting java script and driver web page both on your arcib web site and on your google sites web site.
  • Before the class on 4 October 2011, take the quiz at http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/.dowling/CSC1024F11/CSC1024_Quiz_4.html. Be prepared to discuss your answers in class.

• Assignment #3, assigned Tuesday, 4 October 2011, due Tuesday, 18 October 2011.
   
  
  • In preparation for the work we are doing on game programming in java continue reading the Brackeen text. By Tuesday, 18 October, you are to have read Chapters 6 through 11 of Brackeen, covering at least Chapters 6, 7 and 8 before 11 October and 9, 10 and 11 by 18 October.
  • Go to http://www.oopweb.com/Java/Documents/JavaNotes/VolumeFrames.html and read chapters on Graphical User Interface Programming (55 -- 64) and take the practice quizzes for chapter 55 -- 64 as many times as you need to in order to get all the answers right.
  • Read the relevant links of the course syllabus web page.
  • On or before 11 October 2011, take the quiz at http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/.dowling/CSC1024F11/CSC1024_Quiz_5.html. Be prepared to discuss your answers in the next class.
  • Using what you have learned, prepare a java application that converts the temperature in Fahrenheit to the temperature in Celsius and vice-versa and post the resulting java program on your arcib web site and on your google sites web site.
  • Before the class on 18 October 2011, take the quiz at http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/.dowling/CSC1024F11/CSC1024_Quiz_6.html. Be prepared to discuss your answers in class.
  • In class on 3 October, we will have prepared a java applet that converts the temperature in Fahrenheit to the temperature in Celsius and vice-versa as assigned previously. Use that as a template and prepare a new java applet that converts between English units and metric and post the resulting java script and driver web page both on your arcib web site and on your google sites web site. Using what we will have done in class, make your applet able to run both as an applet and as an application.

• Assignment #4, assigned Tuesday, 18 October 2011, due Tuesday, 1 November 2011.
   
  
  • Carefully finish reading the Brackeen text.
  • To help elaborate on and reinforce what you have read in Brackeen, you are to go the web site for Andrew Davison's "Killer Game Programming in Java" http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/jg/. It is important that you use the web site, rather than the book because the web site has material not included in the book. Read all the chapters through Chapter 13.7. (Scratchable Java).
  • Read the relevant links of the course syllabus web page.
  • On or before 25 October 2011, take the quiz at http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/.dowling/CSC1024F11/CSC1024_Quiz_7.html. Be prepared to discuss your answers in the next class.
  • Using what you have learned, prepare a java application that bounces a ball around in a box and post the resulting java program on your arcib web site and on your google sites web site. You may use the Fred Swartz bouncing ball JApplet as a starting point if you wish, but you must significantly enchance the program with color and/or more balls or some other creative input of your own.
  • Continue reading the web site for Andrew Davison's "Killer Game Programming in Java" http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/jg/. Read the Java Art section.
  • Using what you have learned, prepare a proposal for a java-based game or java-based work of art that you will create as your project for this course. You will be asked about it on quiz 8.
  • Before the class on 1 November 2011, take the quiz at http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/.dowling/CSC1024F11/CSC1024_Quiz_8.html. Be prepared to discuss your answers in class.
  • The end of the semester and the in-class final are approaching. The final will be closed book, open notes, so it is important to start getting your notebooks in shape. Only notes in you own hand in hardbound notebooks will be permitted for the final. Bring whatever notebooks you have ready to class on 1 Nov.

• Assignment #5, assigned Tuesday, 1 November 2011, due Tuesday, 15 November 2011.
   
  
  • This is your next to last assignment before the final. Be sure to catch up on all prior assignments.
  • Continue reading the web site for Andrew Davison's "Killer Game Programming in Java" http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/jg/. Read the Natural User Interfaces section.
  • On or before 8 November 2011, take the quiz at http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/.dowling/CSC1024F11/CSC1024_Quiz_9.html. Be prepared to discuss your answers in the next class.
  • Continue reading the web site for Andrew Davison's "Killer Game Programming in Java" http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/jg/. Read the Java 3D section.
  • Using what you have learned, and what you have proposed for a java-based game or java-based work of art that you will create as your project for this course and implement it You will be asked about it on quiz 10 and have to present it to the class during one of the 2 remaining class sessions.
  • Before the class on 15 November 2011, take the quiz at http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/.dowling/CSC1024F11/CSC1024_Quiz_10.html. Be prepared to discuss your answers in class.

• Assignment #6, assigned Tuesday, 15 November 2011, due Tuesday, 29 November 2011.
   
  
  • This is your last assignment before the final. Be sure to catch up on all prior assignments. All work that you hope to have credited for a grade in this course must have been submitted no later than 9 pm on Thursday, 8 December 2011.
  • Continue reading the web site for Andrew Davison's "Killer Game Programming in Java" http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/jg/. Read the Networking section, chapters 29 through 35.
  • On or before 22 November 2011, take the quiz at http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/.dowling/CSC1024F11/CSC1024_Quiz_11.html. Be prepared to discuss your answers in the next class.
  • Continue reading the web site for Andrew Davison's "Killer Game Programming in Java" http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/jg/. Read the Bluetooth section, chapters B1 through B4.
  • You will have presented your project or discussed the status of your project in class on 15 November. If you only discussed your project on 15 November, you will have to present in class on 29 November 2011. You have until no later than 9 pm on Thursday, 8 December 2011 to post the best version of your project either on your arcib web site or on a Google sites web site (preferably both). What you post should be a complete presentation, not just your code. Email the URL of the best version to the instructor.
  • Before the class on 29 November 2011, take the quiz at http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/.dowling/CSC1024F11/CSC1024_Quiz_12.html. Be prepared to discuss your answers in class.
  • Bring the final set of notes you intend to use for the final exam to class on 29 November 2011.

• Final Exam: There will be an in-class final examination on Tuesday, 6 December, in room A204 on the Brookhaven campus from 1:55 pm to 4:36 pm. It is very important that you show up in person on that day and time to take the final. This will be a closed book, open notes exam, but the only notes you may use are notes in harbound notebooks written in your own hand. Be sure to copy all the code you may need into your notebooks.