Laboratory Assignments

You may wish to bring a USB drive to every lab, or be prepared to transfer files to and from a campus server or your own computer in your room if you have one.

• First Week:

  Lab Entrance Assignment: See the Reading and Homework Assignments page for the lab entrance assignment.

  Lab 1: Getting Started with BlueJ

  You may start on Programming Project #1a (which is due at the beginning of Mini-Lab 1) anytime after finishing Lab 1. (Programming Project #1b will be due at the beginning of Lab 2.)

  Friday Mini-Lab:

  • Mini-Lab Entrance Assignment: Complete the Lab Entrance Assignment for Mini-Lab #1. This assignment asks you to re-do two exercises from Lab 1, concentrating on how objects are constructed.
  • Complete the Creating Fish in an Aquarium mini-lab. Skip the "Downloading and Running the Initial Program" exercise, since you did that in lab on Tuesday; start with the "Simple Modification" exercise. You may also skip the first bullet in the "Constructing Objects" exercise, which you should have done as part of the Lab Entrance Assignment for Mini-Lab #1.
  • You do not need to print the code or class documentation from today's lab, but if you do not finish it during class time, you should finish it before our next class meeting. We will build upon this lab for the next week or two, and, to be kind to the environment, you will only print and hand in your work at the end.

• Second Week:

  Monday Mini-Lab: A Whirl of Color

  Hand in: Hand in clearly written answers to the separate Stop and Think exercises. (You do not need to write up your answers to the parenthetical Stop and Think exercises embedded in the programming exercises.)

  Lab Entrance Assignment: See the Reading and Homework Assignments page for the lab entrance assignment.

  Lab 2: Talking Robot: Using IF-ELSE and Random Numbers

  You may start on Programming Project #2 (which is due at the beginning of Lab 3) anytime after finishing Lab 2.

  Friday Mini-Lab: Keep On Moving

• Third Week:

  Lab Entrance Assignment: Exercises R6.2 and R.6.3 on p. 238. You should bring these, neatly typed, to lab.

  Lab 3: Using Histograms

  You may start on Programming Project #3 (which is due at the beginning of Lab 4) anytime after finishing Lab 3 and the More Fish! Mini-Lab.

  Wednesday Mini-Lab: More Fish! (You may find it useful to review the Introduction to ArrayLists document.)

  Friday In-class Exercise: Exercise 3 from Grid Plotter

  You may start on Programming Project #4 (which is due on Friday of Week 4) anytime after finishing this in-class exercise.

• Fourth Week:

  Monday Mini-Lab:Ascending & Descending Fish

  Lab Entrance Assignment: Read through the Lab and start to get an idea of what is needed to implement the methods.

  Lab 4: Lab: Fish with Class

• Fifth Week:

  Lab 5: Practice Exam

• Sixth Week:

  Lab 6: Percolation Lab (hopefully will become new Bingo Card lab, emphasizing interfaces)

  Wednesday In-class Exercise: Implement GravitationalPercolator. You must have Lab 6 finished before class. (hopefully will move to 7th Week)

  Friday In-class Exercise: Refactor the percolation project to have an AbstractPercolator. Implement AllDirectionPercolator. (hopefully will move to 7th Week)

• Seventh Week:

  Lab 7: Object-Oriented Design (hopefully Percolation lab will move here, emphasizing inheritance)

  The completed Percolation Project is due at the beginning of Lab 7

• Eighth Week:

  Lab 8: Bingo Card Implementation (hopefully OOD lab will move here)

  The completed Object-Oriented Bingo Card Design is due at the beginning of Lab 8

• Ninth Week:

  Lab 9: Time to work on the Final Programming Project

• Tenth Week:

  Monday Mini-Lab: Applet Mini-Lab

  Lab Entrance Assignment: Finish the Applet Mini-Lab

  Lab 10: Balloon Race Applet