From Turing to Java

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From Turing to Java

• Janet Dudek
• Lambton Kent District School Board

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When Why

• When?
• Senior CS class
• With a programming foundation
• Why?
• Students interest Its out there!
• Students readiness the challenge
• Great academics good programming concepts

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Building on Turing

• Graphics
• Basic Concepts
• Procedures and Functions
• O-O Concepts

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Graphics

• Understanding screen layout
• Pixels
• Understanding movement
• Designing

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Basic Concepts

• Data types
• Understanding IPO
• Problem solving concepts

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Procedures Functions

• Awareness appreciation of structure in
  programming
• Knowledge of syntax and use of structures
• Parameters, global local variables

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O-O Concepts

• Awareness of Objects Methods
• Using combinations of graphics, sound, and
  processing

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Ready for Java?

• Basic Programming Knowledge
• Graphics
• Data concepts
• Structures
• Some awareness of O-O
• Problem solving skills
• Desire for a challenge

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Let the FUN Begin O-O

• Simple Graphics
• Basic Concepts
• Grappling with Strings
• Programming with a Partner

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Simple Graphics

• Using Methods
• Beginning to understand Objects
• Building Objects

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Basic Concepts

• Similarities in various programming environments
• Data types
• IPO concepts
• Problem solving skills

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Grappling with O-O Concepts

• Strings
• Why cant I reuse it?
• What is the basic concept here?
• How do I overcome this?
• Graphics Revisited

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Programming with a Partner

• Small shared projects
• Why with a partner?

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Methods

• Procedures Functions
• Build on their knowledge of programming
  structures
• Knowledge of parameters, local variables adapted
  to new language environment
• Function Methods
• Declaring data type of returned values
• recursion

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Classes

• Using Classes from the libraries
• Importing
• Understanding the scope of these classes
• Revisiting problems with Strings
• Creating
• User-defined Objects
• More programming with a partner
• Test your understanding by designing a Class for
  someone else to use

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Let the FUN Continue Applets

• Understanding Applets
• Designing using Applets
• Simple graphic and I/O examples
• Looking for Applets
• Finding and identifying Applet on various web
  sites

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Programming with a Partner

• Web Page Projects
• Creating an Applet to someone elses
  specifications
• Understanding the self-contained nature of Applets

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Student Feedback

• E-mail Journals
• Project Summaries

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Student e-mail Journals

• Some samples

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Student Project Summaries

• Some samples

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Resources

• Hume Barnard. Programming Concepts
  Paradigms
• Holt West. Turing Reference Manual
• Hume Stephenson. Introduction to Programming
  in Java
• Flanagan. Java in a Nunettshell, Desktop
  Reference
• Flanagan. Java Examples in a Nutshell, Tutorial
  Companion
• Chan Lee. The Java Class Libraries, An
  Annotated Reference, 2nd ed. Vol. 1-2