Nifty Assignments. for. BlueJ Day. March 1, 2006. Rathik

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Nifty AssignmentsforBlueJ DayMarch 1, 2006

• Rathika Rajaravivarma
• Central Connecticut StateUniversity

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CS1 at CCSU

• 3-credit introductory programming course for CS
  majors and non-majors
• For the graduate students (non-CS majors) a
  bridge course in introductory programming to
  leap up to advanced programming concepts
• Emphasis on the language foundation
• Focus on language constructs syntax and
  semantics
• Working with classes and objects, control
  structures, and arrays
• GUI is dealt in CS2 / Advanced programming course

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Programming simple games

• Project 1 Design your own games
• - a simple word game and
• - a simple number game
• Example Projects
• Hangman
• Other

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Why we chose BlueJ

• Interactive
• Easy to use
• Ideal for introductory programmers
• Shows relational diagram much like UML
• Visual effect for abstract concepts
• Implemented in Java
• Runs on all platforms
• Debugging features
• Free !

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BlueJs effect on OOP

• think in terms of objects the fundamental units
• foundations
• From a class create objects
• OR to create objects we need a class
• From an object invoke a method
• OR to use a method there must be an object
• Objects exist independently and
  operations can be executed on them.

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The BlueJ Environment

• At the functional level -- Objects
• At the operational level -- Methods
• For a beginner these abstract concepts are
  difficult to grab.
• Visual effect with object and class diagrams and
  the relations between classes has higher impact
  in learning and understanding.
• BlueJ provides an environment to create and
  manipulate objects interactively.

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BlueJ as an OOP environment

• Step 1 Create objects
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  and visualize the outcome
• Step 2 Manipulate method
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  and visualize the outcome
• Step 3 Modify existing method
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  and visualize the outcome
• Step 4 Add/Create methods
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  and visualize the outcome
• Step 5 Create classes
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  and visualize the outcome
• Step 6 Establish a relation
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  and visualize the outcome

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• Questions ???