CS 148 Lab 2 – Scanner
Welcome to the lab 2! Our goal today is to become more familiar with user interaction and the various mathematical operations. Checkpoint 1 Person A, take control of the machine! Let’s write a program that prompts the user for two colors and mixes them together. This sort of routine is used all the time when […]
CS 148 Lab 1 – Madeup, Homework 0, and Project Euler
Welcome to the first lab of CS 148! In the first half of today’s lab, we’re going to explore a language for making 3D models. We won’t be using this language for anything else in the semester, but it gets us thinking about programming in a visual way. We’ll start with a quick demo. In […]
CS 1: Final Exam
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CS 1: Lecture 38 – Binary Search
Dear students, We close our semester today with a discussion of finding things quickly with the binary search. We will illustrate the algorithm and implement it in the context of a dictionary/spell-checker. Earlier in the semester we discussed the linear search. Let’s revisit that algorithm first by locating a spice in our spice rack. What […]
CS 1: Lecture 37 – Lights Out
Dear students, It’s the last week! Given that we’re all stressed and ready to be done, let’s play a game today. Just kidding, let’s make one instead. We’re going to implement Lights Out, which started off as a handheld game from Tiger Electronics: The game is played on a 5×5 grid of lights, some of […]
CS 1: Lecture 36 – Unit Testing
Dear students, Today, we examine one of the less glamorous aspects of writing code: testing it. There are three big reasons to write systematic tests of your software: To make sure that your code does what you think it does. To expand your thinking into situations outside your normal parameter ranges and workflow. To ensure […]
CS 1: Lecture 35 – Implementing a Growable Array
Dear students, Today, December 6, is National Growable Array Day. We will celebrate growable arrays everywhere by growing one of our own growable arrays, right here, in our classroom. I hope you wore your festive gear. Behind every growable array is an plain old ungrowable array. When that ungrowable array gets filled up, a new […]
CS 1: Lecture 34 – Volume Slicer
Dear students, When we last met, we made a slideshow application. This was our first graphical application that we wrote from scratch. We organized the code into two camps: model code and view code. This separation made the model code reusable under many different circumstances. Let’s do all that again today, but in a different […]
CS 1: Lecture 33 – Separation of Concerns in Slideshow
Dear students, A primary benefit of object-oriented design is that it helps us organize our programs coherently. We can put code and the data that it regularly processes together into the same chunk. Objects allow for the separation of concerns. Class A can focus on its task, and be very good at it. It can […]
CS 1: Midterm 2
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