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APCS Java

by Chris Thiel

OOP Java for the AP CompSci A Test

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  1. Hello World Without an IDE

    You can get a lot of insight in how coding works and how an Integrated Development Environment (IDE can help the process of compiling, and executing the code you write.

  2. Installing Java JDK SE 8 on Windows 10

    Installing the Java JDK 8 SE on Windows 10 for learning AP Computer Science A. Links mentioned in the video: mathorama.com/wiki Summer Assignment Links links java se jdk8 downloads.html https://bluej.org/versions.html Subscribe to APCS Java

  3. Game Applet Stage 3

    Stage 3 Enemies are made and tested. Video Source code is at http://apcs.mathorama.com/index.php?n=Main.SimpleGameTutorial and the game is at http://www.mathorama.com/ChickenLittle.html If you missed Stage 1, you can get it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u459QHRepC8 or...

  4. Game Applet Stage 2

    Stage 2 of the Game Applet is making the player and have it be controlled with keyboard input. Source code is at apcs.mathorama.com and the game is at www.mathorama.com/ChickenLittle.html Video YouTube If you missed Stage 1, you can get it at here

  5. Game Applet: Stage 1

    Stage 1: Load the art and sounds to your eclipse project, so you can export your game into a .jar file to easily upload to a web site. You can get to the game and the source files at: Link to Game Link to Source Code Link to Video Link to Video on YouTube

  6. Gridworld Overview

    Gridworld Overview Video

  7. Making Images with GIMP

    Making Images With GIMP You can download from http://www.gimp.org I show how to use some features in GIMP (from www.gimp.org) a open source image editor to use with your programs. First, drawing a picture from scratch, then cleaning up a photo, and finally tracing a photo to make a simple…

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  8. Installing BlueJ 2012

    Installing BlueJ 2012 Video Here is a 2012 version to check to make sure your Java SDK and BlueJ IDE installation is working correctly. While I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 to show this, it works pretty much the same in Windows and OSX.

  9. Comparator Interface in Gridworld

    Here is a customized World for Gridworld where the message on the top is updated to show how many bugs there are and the location of the furthest Bug in the grid. You need to implement the Comparator interface for the grid world Bug class. You need to define a compare method that returns an int....

  10. One To Ten Game Part 3

    Part 3 of the One to Ten Game which explains the Player Class. You can see a working copy at http://www.mathorama.com/OneToTenConsole.html

  11. One to Ten Game Part 2

    Part 2 of 3 of the One to Ten Game

  12. One to Ten Game Part 1

    In this tutorial, we make a game called "1 to 10" rather than tic-tac-toe (naughts and crosses). We will construct A Board Class in the first part along with a tester class. The idea is to move a page either one or two positions, and the one in the last position loses. The strategy is not to...

  13. Make a Java Class for Dots

    Make a new object that represents a dot using the eclipse IDE.

  14. Making a JAR file in Eclipse

    If you want to publish your Applet to the web, you probably need to make a Java Archive, or JAR file that allows you to embed your Applet in a web page

  15. Getting Started with APCS Java on Windows 7

    How to get what you need installed on your Windows 7 machine

  16. PokerHand

    To make a variety of Poker games, we need a way to evaluate and compare Poker hands. This video also shows how to implement an interface in an inner class, so that a user can press a button, and new poker hands are generated. Starter code can be found at the APCS Wiki.

  17. Interfaces Part 3

    Implementing java interfaces for any Object. For "starter" code see the APCS Wiki

  18. Java Interfaces Parts 1 and 2

    We introduce a way to use code to work with a variety of classes using interfaces. Source code can be found at the APCS Wiki

  19. Making Classes with the Eclipse IDE

    Make mew Projects and Classes in Eclipse.

  20. Dr Java interactions

    Click on the title to see the video. Here I show how to try the code snippets that you will see while reading Chapter 2 of Horstmann, "Java Concepts"

  21. Cryptography

    Starting Code: import java.util.Scanner; /** * Simple Polyalphabetic Cryptography * * @Chris Thiel * @28 Feb 2009 */ public class VignereCipherStartingCode { private static final String alphabet="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"; private static int nextChar(String k, int i){ i=i%k.length(); String...

  22. Cheater Catcher Intro

    Overview of how to design a program that checks for patterns of matching words to detect plagiarism.

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