• 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

BlueJ Projects

Assignment

Connect 4 Toni RiedlChristopher Newport University

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