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Using Text, Games, and GUIs to Teach Java Barb Ericson Georgia Tech April 2006 Why These Topics? • Text – Basic text processing is important in computing – Women find playing with language fun – Students like to produce web pages • Games – Boys often come to computing from a interest in games – Both boys and girls can enjoy creating games • GUIs – Students find graphics and graphical user interfaces motivating – Practical applications of inheritance and interfaces Working with Text • Parameter passing – Write a form letter and pass in details such as the name and address to customize the letter • Conditionals – Do a form letter with two different results based on some condition – Create a Web page with a different comment based on the current temperature • Iteration and Conditionals – Output the lyrics to a song where something changes each time through the song • 99 Bottles of beer on the wall – Parse delimited strings • Read text and create objects from the text – Search a web page for text to pull out of it – Search a program for text to change and change it Working with Text • Arrays and Classes – Create a fortune teller that randomly picks a fortune from an array of fortunes – Create a random sentence generator that picks parts from arrays of nouns, verbs, and phrases • Lists – Create a fortune teller and after each fortune has been picked remove it from the list – Create a random sentence generator and remove picked items as you pick them from the lists Games • Simple games – NumberGuess – Hangman – Breakout • Conditionals – GuessWho • Arrays – Battleship – Tic-Tac-Toe – Checkers GUI • You can teach with awt or Swing components – But students may find this difficult – See the slides in the GUI folder • An alternative is the Java Task Force libraries – http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~eroberts/jtf/ – Simplifies graphical user interface programming See tutorial at http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~eroberts/jtf/tutorial/index.html Demos at http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~eroberts/jtf/demos/index.html Assignment Ideas • Nifty Assignments from SIGCSE – http://nifty.stanford.edu/ • 2006 – Book Number - deals with the ISBN, International Symbolic Book Number, which involves error detection. – Breakout – create the arcade game breakout with the Java Task Force libraries – Dancing Turtles – create a lead and follower turtle and implement a conga line. • 2005 – Grid Plotter – teach about 2-D arrays and looping – Name Surfer – Search Social Security Data for Names
