APCS - 1516 - October

Thursday (10/29/15)

Agenda:

• You should have completed all the tests through Test 10
• You should have completed all the activities through Activity 7
• Work on eIMACS Lab 1: Chatterbot
  1. Use NetBeans to develop, and then paste your code into eIMACS
  2. If you have questions or are stuck, debug by yourself for a few minutes, and then ask Mr. Bui

Tuesday (10/27/15)

Warmup:

1. Open your pig latin translator program
2. Add a String[] with the following words: "good", "morning", "washington-lee", "how", "now", "brown", "cow"
3. Use a for-each loop to translate every word in the array
   • This should not be extremely difficult. Simply put a for-each loop around your translation code

Agenda:

• Demo missing assignments:
  • Java Methods Test
  • Java - Array methods assignment
• Methods review
• main() method
• Work on eIMACS Lab 1: Chatterbot
  1. Use NetBeans to develop, and then paste your code into eIMACS
  2. Let's walk through the first part of the lab

Homework:

• Complete missing Activities (check your eIMACS grades)
• Complete eIMACS Test 9 (for and for-each loops)
• Complete eIMACS Test 10 (static methods)

Friday (10/23/15)

Agenda:

• IDT Programming Contest (Nov - Mar)
  • Come see Mr. Bui or Eric Weiner if interested
• Project Euler
  • If you finish assignments early, you are encouraged to attempt these problems
• Project Rosalind
  • If you finish assignments early, you are encouraged to attempt these problems
• Demo Java Methods Test
• Creating and using a static class w/ static methods
  • We will walk through the first method
  • Complete Java - Array methods assignment

Monday - Wednesday (10/19/15 - 10/21/15)

Agenda:

• Happy "Back to the Future" Day! (10/21/15)
• VCU Computer Science Day (open house)
• Demo Java - Pig Latin Translator
• Introduction to Java Methods (Functions)
  • eIMACS chapters on Java methods
  • Media:JavaMethods.pptx
  • Implement all the methods for Java Methods Test
• Creating and using a static class w/ static methods
  • We will walk through the first method
  • Java - Array methods assignment

Thursday (10/15/15)

Agenda:

• Questions on Activity 7? If you are having trouble, come in during GP
• Java - Pig Latin Translator

Tuesday (10/13/15)

Agenda:

• Missing assignments
• For loop review
• For each loops
• Complete Activity 7 (you may use either type of for loops)

Homework:

• Complete Activity 7

Thursday (10/8/15)

Warmup:

• Go to eIMACS Gradebook
• Check if you have any missing / blank grades
• Grades in RED are incomplete. You need to go back and complete them

Agenda:

• Demo the following:
  • Guessing Game Assignment
  • Monte Carlo Calculation of Pi
  • Taylor series Pi
  • Taylor series e
• Java For Loops - eIMACS For Loops Chapter
  • For Loop Flow Chart
  • For Loop Examples (C language)
• Convert your 4 programs above to use for loops instead of while loops. DO NOT delete your old code. Copy, paste, and comment out the old code.

Homework:

• Complete Test 8 - be sure to use scratch paper or a dry erase board
• Convert your 2 programs above to use for loops instead of while loops.

Tuesday (10/6/15)

Warmup:

1. Create a new NetBeans project named SummationWarmup
2. Prompt the user for a variable N (you'll need to create a Scanner to do this)
3. Create a variable named sum and initialize it to 0
4. Write a while loop that sums up the first N natural numbers ( 1 through N ) and stores the results in your sum variable
5. Print out the sum

Agenda:

• Complete Guessing Game Assignment
  • Note, the random number generator code is Python, so you will need to look up how to do it in Java
  • Ex. (int) Math.ceil(Math.random()*100)
• Complete Monte Carlo Calculation of Pi
• Create a Java program to calculate Pi using a Taylor Series
  • Taylor Series Pi
  • Prompt the user for N, which should be how many Taylor Series terms to sum
• Create a Java program to calculate the math constant e using a Taylor Series
  • Common Taylor Series
  • Prompt the user for N, which should be how many Taylor Series terms to sum

Homework:

• Install Java JDK and NetBeans IDE (or an IDE of your choice)
  • NetBeansIDE + JDK Bundle

Friday (10/2/15)

Warmup:

• Grades posted:
  • Incomplete Activities and Tests hurt your grade
  • Tests were given extra 9 points (curved 1.5 letters)

Agenda:

• Grade Calculator walk-through
• Fix Grade Calculator to use a while loop
• Iteration
  • while
  • break - exits the loop where break is found
  • continue - jumps to loop condition where continue is found
• While loops practice
  1. Print out all the numbers from 0-20
  2. Print out all the numbers from 2015 down to 2000
  3. Write a loop that prints out the first 66 even numbers
  4. Prompt the user for a number and store it in a variable n, then print out the first n multiples of 3 (starting at 3) using a loop
  5. Print out all the numbers that are divisible by 7 from 0 through 1000
• Complete Guessing Game Assignment
  • Note, the random number generator code is Python, so you will need to look up how to do it in Java
• Complete Monte Carlo Calculation of Pi
• If you have completed the above, create a Java program to calculate pi using a Taylor Series
  • Taylor Series Pi
• Finished that? Create a Java program to calculate the math constant e using a Taylor Series
  • Common Taylor Series

Homework:

• Install Java JDK and NetBeans IDE (or an IDE of your choice)
  • NetBeansIDE + JDK Bundle