[Java-sig] Where to go past "hello world"?

joel lopez badassmexican at gmail.com
Tue Nov 21 18:02:27 PST 2006


I also have all of the lecture hand outs wich were all the notes neccessary
to do the assingments.  I can bring those in if we want to give these a try.

Joel



On 11/21/06, Emerson, Tom <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:
>
>  Those look pretty good too, and though only lessons up to 4 are
> "strictly" Java, it looks like lesson 5 goes on to do an implementation of
> "snakes" (or as sometimes known, the tron "lightcycle" game -- same premise
> except the trail never goes away till you crash)  I see "some other-language
> stuff" starts creeping in around this lesson as well, but as this looks like
> a general "computer science" class, where you learn a new language "each
> month", nothing really stops you from implementing the rest of the lessons
> in Java as well (it's just that some of the "problems' are better suited to
> other languages...)
>
> Tom
>
> p.s. I remember writing a snake game, in basic, for the TRS-80 model 1 in
> high school...  (though I cannot say for certain if we "did it from scratch"
> or "typed in a neat program we saw in Byte magazine...")
>
>  -----Original Message-----
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> *Subject:* Re: [Java-sig] Where to go past "hello world"?
>
> I'd like to suggest these assignments from a class I took.  They start off
> easy and then get harder.
> Only assignments 1 - 4 use java.  Assigment 4 is a version of minesweeper
> called spam sweeper.
>
> http://www.cs.hmc.edu/courses/2006/spring/cs60/assignments/hwindex.html
>
>
>
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