ICA-CP 11/8/06

Good morning!

Reminder to seniors who went on the retreat: Your homework, worth 30 points, is due at the beginning of class on Friday. You must do podcast evaluations on the 5 applet podcasts. (Applet podcasters: your podcast is worth 30 points.)

Today, we do a quiz review and also go over some new concepts, hardware computer components. The quiz on Friday will be closed book. It will cover IS-A, HAS-A, polymorphism, inheritance, data types, classes, applets, and computer hardware components. It will be administered online through a web site.

After the quiz review, work on you Eliza algorithm and pseudo-code. The algorithm is the set of instructions for your Eliza program. For example, step 1: print a greeting to the user and instructions for using the progran; step 2: ask the user's name; step 3: print replies to the user's words until the user types "Done." Whatever steps you will have in your program is what is detailed in the algorithm. Some due dates: Your algorithm is due on Friday, 11/10/06. The pseudo-code is due on Thursday, 11/16/06. Your running Java code and documentation are due on Tuesday, 11/21/06. If you're late in submitting work for a particular due date, 10% of the points for that part of the project are deducted automatically. On blue days, the room 403 computer lab will be open during lunch if you need extra time. After the Thanksgiving break, we start working on our semester project and will do Phase 2 of your Eliza program. So, we need all of the time before finals for our projects and Eliza Phase 2.