APCS Java

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.

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/wikiSummer Assignment Links linksjava se jdk8 downloads.htmlhttps://bluej.org/versions.html Subscribe to APCS Java

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 https://archive.org/details/GameAppletStage1. Stage 2 can be found at https://archive.org/details/GameAppletStage2

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...

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...

Gridworld Overview

Gridworld Overview Video

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...

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...

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...

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

One to Ten Game Part 2

Part 2 of 3 of the One to Ten Game

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...

Make a Java Class for Dots

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

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

Getting Started with APCS Java on Windows 7

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

Getting Started with APCS Java on Windows 7

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

Starting APCS with linux

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...

Interfaces Part 3

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

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

Making Classes with the Eclipse IDE

Make mew Projects and Classes in Eclipse.

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"

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 letter=k.substring(i,i+1); return alphabet.indexOf(letter); }...

Cheater Catcher Project

Part 2: Organizing the report that shows possible plagiarism might require another data structure to sort. Download the files you need to get started at here. Click the title to see the video.

Cheater Catcher Intro

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

Base Converter Solution

The solution to the "Base Converter" Lab is discussed

JUnit Testing

Writing code to test the code you want to write! Sounds crazy but it is the quick way to make sure the code does what you want it to!