Carleton Summer Teaching Institute: Computer Science A

Links

• AP Computer Science A Course Home Page
• Java 7 API
• Role Playing in an Object-Oriented World
• Code and files we wrote
• T.J.'s links

I've listed assignments by days, but feel free to jump around.

Monday

• Intro Java Lab
• Intro Graphics Lab
• Automatic Landscape
• Automatic Landscape, Redux
• Talk Like A Pirate. Arrr.

Tuesday

Here are three different assignments involving creating your own classes. The first one is more straightforward than the other two. If you're new to AP or Java, start with the first one. If you're more experienced, choose one of the other two based on which one seems like it might be more fun to do.

• Car
• Lunar Lander
• Skyline

More activities

• Loops and array activities
• AI Author

Wednesday

• Pets
• Shapes
• GridWorld Set 1 Exercises (see College Board book)
• GridWorld Set 2 Exercises (see College Board book)
• GridWorld role play

Thursday

• Images 1
• Images 2
• Sorting practice
• Recursion practice
• GridWorld Set 3 Exercises (see College Board book)
• GridWorld Set 4 Exercises (see College Board book)

Final Project Possibility

• Final Project

Data Structures Assignments (more advanced stuff)

• Encryption [many thanks to Lester McCann]
• Recursive queue
• Search engine
• Search engine via hashing
• Big family heap