Read the comments

Next assignment.
Read the comments here:

http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/07/09/29/2027210.shtml

Create a slashdot account and leave your two cents. Then leave a link to your comment on your blog.

What to know for the first test:

Understand the following terms:

• Logic
• Programming language
• Pseudocode
• object-oriented programming
• methods
• coding
• variable
• class
• data types
• Be able to write out the pseudocode for simple applications like a tax bracket calculator, a price-comparison program, and a credit card balance calculator (problem 8 on page 29).
• objects
• inheritance
• polymorphism
• encapsulation
• Know how to do CLASS DIAGRAMS.
• protected variables
• private variables
• Review the "REVIEW QUESTIONS" at the end of chapter 1 and 2.

Good luck!!

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First test September 26th

Chapter 1 and 2 Test on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007!

Next assignment

You are to complete exercises 1-5 on page 52 on your blog.

DF

Today's assignments!

Each of the following four questions will need to be in their own posts:

• First you will write out the pseudocode to make a BK Whopper.
  
• Next you will take the pseudocode and give proper variable names to all variables needed for the program.
  
• Next you will create the necessary methods for the BK Whopper program.
  
• Lastly you will document the BK Whopper program. What is it for? Why would anyone ever need to SIMULATE the creation of a BK Whopper?
  

Next you will create a post answering questions 2, 3, 6 from page 28-29. Each answer should be in a separate post!

#2. In your own words, describe the steps to writing a computer program.

#3. Lakeview Towers is being constructed as a high-rise apartment building in a downtown urban district. The managers of the building want to create a simulation of daily elevator use to plan for the optimum number of elevators so that elevators are neither idle too frequently nor cause more than a one-minute wait for any resident. What sorts of objects should be created to use in a simulation of potential elevator activity?

#6. Write the pseudocode for an application that allows a user to enter the price of an item and computes 5% sales tax on the item.

First assignment at home!

First homework assignment is to download Alice from here:

http://www.alice.org/

and install it on your computer at home. Then you are to run the very first tutorial.

Email me at david.freer@gmail.com when you are finished! Let me know how the first tutorial went.