COMP1400 – Programming for Designers

Download the Wumpus game shown in lectures. Examine the code try to follow how it works. Make the following changes to the game: Rearrange the rooms so that are in a 4×5 grid. Make it so that the wumpus needs to be shot more than once (you choose how many times) to be killed. Each […]

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If you are in one of the Monday tutorials, your usual class will not be running next week as it is the long weekend. You are welcome to turn up to one of the other tutorial times: Tue 10:00 – 12:00 Mabu Lab Elec Eng 455 Tue 14:00 – 16:00 Leaf Lab Mech Eng Undercroft […]

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Consider the game of Scrabble. List all the data involved in representing the game. Be thorough. How might this data be divided into abstract chunks? What idea does each chunk represent? Draw a flow chart of the game play. Break it up into methods of different levels of detail. How do these methods associate with […]

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Create an instance of the java.util.Random class in BlueJ using the Tools > Use Library Class… option. Right click on the object created to see its methods. Try running some of them. What do they do? Read the Java docs for the Random class. Which method would you use to: Simulate a fair coin toss? […]

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In this tutorial we will be working with 2D arrays to do some image manipulation. Download the BlueJ project ASCIIArt.zip. Inside you will find a class that contains the method readImage(String url). This method takes the URL for any image on the web and converts it into a 2D array of integers. Each entry in […]

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This week’s tut covers two very common activities in programming: mapping and filtering. Write a method mapDouble which takes in an array of integers and returns a new array containing the double of each entry in the first array. Eg: int[] data = {1, 3, 4, 2, 0, 5, -2}; int[] doubled = mapDouble(data); The […]

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If you did not finish all the exercises from last week’s lab, try to finish them off this week. If you have already completed those exercises, try these ones. Exercise 1. Write a method that accepts two arguments, an integer and an array of integers. Assume that the numbers in the array are sorted in […]

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This week, you will download the BlueJ project Week4.zip and write methods to manipulate arrays. Two methods are given to you complete. You don’t have to do anything to them. The method readArray public int[] readArray() reads a list of numbers, one per line, ending with a blank line, and returns an array containing the […]

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The exercises below use the Tut3.zip project for BlueJ. Data types What data type would you use to represent the following values? Why? The length of a piece of string. The number of students at UNSW. A person’s age. The mass of the sun. The exact number of stars in the Milky Way. The mathematical […]

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