APCS Java

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.

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

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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 https://archive.org/details/GameAppletStage1.

Stage 2 can be found at https://archive.org/details/GameAppletStage2

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

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

Gridworld Overview Video

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 "cartoon" like image.  For more info on where I used these images, see http://apcs.mathorama.com/ 

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.

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. Get the location of each Bug and use the compareTo method of Location. Here is the starter code: apcs.mathorama.com

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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