Friday

Your assignment for the next three days in class involves preparing a 5-minute PowerPoint presentation on a programming language.

Here are the programming language assignments:

• Savannah - Java (not Javascript)
• Mike - Ruby {on Rails}
• Castiel - VB [Visual Basic]
• Nick - Pascal
  
• Sarah - PHP
• Taylor - Python
• Jake - Perl
• Lee - C# [pronounced: see sharp]
• Josh - COBOL
• Jeromé - Ajax
  

What your PowerPoint should include: INCLUDE SOURCES (must use 4)!

• Background - who/ what/ where/ when/ how was the language developed
• Popularity - how popular is it? check a few sites.
  
• Strengths - what's so great? who mostly uses it? why was it developed?
• Weaknesses - what can't it do? who's it bad for? what are some alternatives?
• Variables - how are they declared? is it object-oriented? examples?
• Control Structures - how are they declared? examples?
• Loops - how are they declared? examples?
• Compilers - are they free? where can i get them? examples?
• "Hello World" - include a complete example of the infamous first program.
  
• Sources - cite your sources at the end of the PowerPoint. must use at least 4.
  
• Include some *fun* graphics.
• !!! 5 minutes !!!
• PowerPoint will be turned in at the end of class on Tuesday.
  

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Welcome Back

Today we're going to begin writing Breakout. We're going to keep it simple, at first.

Pseudocode!!!


Here's the BPA XHTML Image to be used...



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Midterm Rewrite

Your assignment for today is to rewrite the midterm code:

• Instead of using individual variables for x, y, dx, & dy, create a struct called "ball" which contains x, y, dx, dy.
• Instead of just one circle, create an array of 10 circles using your struct.
• Use for-loops to handle all you array elements cleanly.
• Keyboard controls should effect all circles simultaneously.
• The bitmap image should remain as it was originally.
• Upload your code when you're finished.

If you finish the assignment, begin working on the Networking assignment.


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Data Structures

Read THIS WEBPAGE about data structures.

Then revisit the Space_Flight code.

Study it...


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