Business Programming

This week’s tutorial is taken from the textbook, exercises 5.25 – 30 on page 149. They are reproduced below. The task is to implement a simple phone book where numbers are associated with names, both represented as strings. Your phone book should be able to add a new name/number pair and you should be able […]

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Catch-up Week This week, we will finish off the exercises left over from last week and any other work left-over from previous tutorials.

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Your task this week is to implement a program to represent decks and hands of playing cards. Download the cards.zip file and uncompress it. It contains an incomplete BlueJ project called cards. Open the project and inspect the classes: Card – this represents a single playing card. Deck – this represents a deck of cards. The […]

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Task 1: Universities Suppose we were writing a program to administer a university. Discuss: What are the different levels of abstraction we might use to represent the university? Choose an object at the mid-level of your hierarchy. What kind of public interface might it provide? What private implementation details might it hide? Task 2: Return […]

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Understand Assignment 1 Follow the assignment 1 instructions to download the skeleton project. Make sure you understand what is required. If not ask your tutor. Investigating the TicketMachine: Download the TicketMachine project we have been building in lectures. Unzip it on your desktop and open the project with BlueJ. Create an instance of the TicketMachine class. […]

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Experiment with the BlueJ projects we saw in lectures. Login with your zPass login and password. Download the ‘shapes’ project zip file from here . Download the ‘picture’ project zip file from here . Unzip both files in your “My Documents” folder. In the ‘Start’ menu, select ‘Programs’ and click on BlueJ. Select ‘Open Project’ from the […]

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