BlueJ Projects
• 3 semesters teaching CS1 with Java using BlueJ with
BlueJ book (CS2 is Eclipse)
• I have taught 6 sections; 4 taught by others
• CS0 now has 3 weeks if/while/objects/BlueJ
Shapes
• First project, drawing a picture
• Other projects:
– rainfall meter with Shapes Squares as bar graph,
– the card game War with colors as point values
– bull's eye target
• All course information at:
www.pcs.cnu.edu/~lambert/Classes/Spring06/150/150.html
Connect 4 Toni Riedl
Christopher Newport University
Assignment
Connect 4 Class Diagram
Text-based Interface
Connect 4 Assignment
• Done in 3 parts: board, logic,
interface
• Programming Partners
• Interface given. Students write
the others
• 4 weeks total (unrelated shorter
programming assignments in
between)
Mastermind Fall 2005
Lynn Lambert
Start Screen
After 5 turns
Use BlueJ for Interface