You can get a lot of insight in how coding works and how an Integrated Development Environment (IDE can help the process of compiling, and executing the code you write.By Chris Thiel

Installing the Java JDK 8 SE on Windows 10 for learning AP Computer Science A. Links mentioned in the video: mathorama.com/wiki Summer Assignment Links links java se jdk8 downloads.html https://bluej.org/versions.html Subscribe to APCS JavaBy Chris Thiel

Stage 3 Enemies are made and tested. Video Source code is at http://apcs.mathorama.com/index.php?n=Main.SimpleGameTutorial and the game is at http://www.mathorama.com/ChickenLittle.html If you missed Stage 1, you can get it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u459QHRepC8 or https://archive.org/details/GameAppletStage1. Stage 2 can be found at https:/…

Stage 2 of the Game Applet is making the player and have it be controlled with keyboard input. Source code is at apcs.mathorama.com and the game is at www.mathorama.com/ChickenLittle.html Video YouTube If you missed Stage 1, you can get it at hereBy Chris Thiel

Stage 1: Load the art and sounds to your eclipse project, so you can export your game into a .jar file to easily upload to a web site. You can get to the game and the source files at: Link to Game Link to Source Code Link to Video Link to Video on YouTubeBy Chris Thiel

Gridworld Overview VideoBy Chris Thiel

Making Images With GIMP You can download from http://www.gimp.org I show how to use some features in GIMP (from www.gimp.org) a open source image editor to use with your programs. First, drawing a picture from scratch, then cleaning up a photo, and finally tracing a photo to make a simple "cartoon" like image. For more info on where I used these im…

Installing BlueJ 2012 Video Here is a 2012 version to check to make sure your Java SDK and BlueJ IDE installation is working correctly. While I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 to show this, it works pretty much the same in Windows and OSX.By Chris Thiel

Here is a customized World for Gridworld where the message on the top is updated to show how many bugs there are and the location of the furthest Bug in the grid. You need to implement the Comparator interface for the grid world Bug class. You need to define a compare method that returns an int. Get the location of each Bug and use the compareTo me…

Part 3 of the One to Ten Game which explains the Player Class. You can see a working copy at http://www.mathorama.com/OneToTenConsole.htmlBy Chris Thiel

Part 2 of 3 of the One to Ten GameBy Chris Thiel

In this tutorial, we make a game called "1 to 10" rather than tic-tac-toe (naughts and crosses). We will construct A Board Class in the first part along with a tester class. The idea is to move a page either one or two positions, and the one in the last position loses. The strategy is not to difficult, so eventually we can make a robot player who w…

Make a new object that represents a dot using the eclipse IDE.By Chris Thiel

If you want to publish your Applet to the web, you probably need to make a Java Archive, or JAR file that allows you to embed your Applet in a web pageBy Chris Thiel

How to get what you need installed on your Windows 7 machineBy Chris Thiel

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To make a variety of Poker games, we need a way to evaluate and compare Poker hands. This video also shows how to implement an interface in an inner class, so that a user can press a button, and new poker hands are generated. Starter code can be found at the APCS Wiki.By Chris Thiel

Implementing java interfaces for any Object. For "starter" code see the APCS WikiBy Chris Thiel

We introduce a way to use code to work with a variety of classes using interfaces. Source code can be found at the APCS WikiBy Chris Thiel

Make mew Projects and Classes in Eclipse.By Chris Thiel

Click on the title to see the video. Here I show how to try the code snippets that you will see while reading Chapter 2 of Horstmann, "Java Concepts"By Chris Thiel

Starting Code: import java.util.Scanner; /** * Simple Polyalphabetic Cryptography * * @Chris Thiel * @28 Feb 2009 */ public class VignereCipherStartingCode { private static final String alphabet="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"; private static int nextChar(String k, int i){ i=i%k.length(); String letter=k.substring(i,i+1); return alphabet.indexOf(lette…

Part 2: Organizing the report that shows possible plagiarism might require another data structure to sort. Download the files you need to get started at here. Click the title to see the video.By Chris Thiel

Overview of how to design a program that checks for patterns of matching words to detect plagiarism.By Chris Thiel