IBCompSci-2-2015-16

If you want to look for more videos (there are lots) try looking for
Toy Story and Jurassic Park, which were two of the first large scale
CGI movies, as well as The Matrix which contained LOTS of CGI.

Last Class for Functional Prototype - 14 Sep 2015

Starting tomorrow, we will go back to lectures about the IB CS Syllabus.
You must continue your Functional Prototype + Client Interview(s) + Stage A Document
at home.

Please try to write some USER STORIES (brief but meaningful) as outlined here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNjlx7wykdk&spfreload=10

Continue Functional Prototype - 11 Sep 2015

Continue working on your functional prototype.

Get something finished that you can show to your Client.

Planning Ahead - 10 Sep 2015

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== Oct ==
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12a - Stage A Due 12 Oct

With 3.5 weeks left (excluding vacation) until Stage A is due, we should

look at the CHECK-LIST and make a plan for finishing on time - something like this:

1 week - finish an understandable functional prototype

1 week - meet with CLIENT, discuss prototypes,
take notes (or audio recording),
start writing Criteria for Success (GOALS)

½ week - make/copy some illustrative pictures
write down some SAMPLE DATA

1 week - look at a couple Sample Projects (especially #8)

WRITE stage A Planning and turn it in

Using OOP in your Project - 8 Sep 2015

We are studying Object Oriented Programming as the EXTENSION topic.

This means that you will have a Paper 2 about OOP in Java.

Using OOP techniques should make your Project easier to create,
especially to demonstrate COMPLEX and INGENIOUS programming (criteria C).

We will be discussing OOP for the next couple of weeks.

Data First in OOP

Objects as Black Boxes

Data Structures in Java

Continue Functional Prototype - 7 Sep 2015

Spend one more day on your Functional Prototype.
(1) Show the teacher what you have so far
(2) Compare it to your Visual Prototype
(3) Show the teacher what you have written in your Record of Tasks form

A "Fixed" GUI Library for Processing 3.0 - 1 Sep 2015

Here is a sample program using the GUI.java library:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/275979/ibcomp/processing/attendancePrototype.zip

Here is the basic idea:

(1) Add a new TAB containing GUI.java

(2) The main program contains "stub" versions of SETUP and DRAW, like this:

import java.awt.*;

App app;

void setup()

{

size(400,400);
app = new App();

noLoop();

}

void draw()

{

}

class App extends GUI

{ …..
program is here
…..
}

(3) The main program is in a class that extends GUI.

This class can contain awt controls, and actions method, etc.

This will work in Processing 3, Processing 2.2, and BlueJ (with slight modification).

This fully supports AWT controls, just like our old IO library.

Unfortunately, graphics commands are a bit trickier, but not impossible.

Next week we will discuss how to include graphics displays.

Which Java IDE ? - 28 Aug 2015

You can use BlueJ or Processing or any other Java IDE that you like.

Unfortunately the new Processing Version 3 Beta still has bugs

in it and will not be usable for AWT GUI programming.

So if you wish to use Processing, stick to version 2.2.1 .

Functional Prototype - 27 Aug 2015

1 - Start writing a Functional Prototype as a Java program.

You might get some ideas from this example: checkout.html

Keep in mind this is only a very simple Prototype.

This is not the "whole program". Make it do something

that you could show to your Client. That probably
includes some INPUT, some OUTPUT and some PROCESSING.

2 - Make a 3rd entry in your Record of Tasks that says
you are writing a Functional Prototype.

3 - As you think about the Prototype, you will think of some GOALS.

Start a GOALS document where you can write down GOALS

as you think of them (and erase them if you change your mind).

Project Overview - Stages A-E - 26 Aug 2015

1 - Forms.zip - Discuss the Record of Tasks
Students need to download the FORMS.zip file,
unpack it and make a copy of the Record of Tasks.

This should contain AT LEAST ONE ENTRY PER WEEK.
You will spend at least 20 weeks on this Project (excluding vacations),
so you should have at least 20 entries at the end.

At the end, it must contain entries for ALL parts of the Project -
all of stages A to E. To get started, write the first 2 entries:
(i) choosing a topic and an client (Stage A)

(ii) creating a Prototype (Stage A)

2 - Software Design Notes and Project Overview Notes
Most important issue right now -
concentrate on the PROBLEM, the CLIENT, and the GOALS (Criteria for success)