AP Computer Science --- Haas --- Final Project  

You must select TWO projects from the following list of topics.

1. Create a project using Alice. Alice is free educational software developed at Carnegie Mellon University. In Alice you work in a 3D programming environment to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Students drag and drop graphic tiles, where the instructions correspond to standard statements in a production oriented programming language, such as Java, C++, and C#.
2. Create a project using the GridWorld case study. Use GridWorld to create a game or solve a problem such as: Minesweeper, TicTacToe, Checkers, or the Six Queens Problem.
3. Teach a lesson on one or more of the AB topics. AB topics include: Big-Oh notation, Throwing runtime exceptions, Linked lists, Stacks, Queues, Trees, Heaps, Priority queues, Sets, Maps. If you don't want to teach a lesson you could opt to study AB topics and take an AB test which I will create.
4. Learn more about, and create, several Java Applets. An applet is a program written in the Java that can be included in an HTML page.
5. Learn about and create projects involving GUI Programming in Java. Topcs include: Swing, Events, Graphics, and Animation.
6. Make something useful! Talk to a teacher at NPHS and create a program that they can use in class.
   Some examples:
   • Ask Ms. Stewart about creating a program to demonstrate phyllotaxis; the arrangement of the leaves on the stem of a plant.
   • Create a program that Mr. Frisina can use to run statistical simulations.
   • Help Mr. Haas by writing an applet to show a related rate demonstration such as a sliding ladder, or expanding volumes.
7. Make a cool game using yoyogames!
8. Do some research and create a program to generate fractals.
9. Check out nifty assignments, and try one!
10. Come up with an idea on your own.

Final Project time line:

First project.

• Wednesday, May 13th - Project proposal - hand in a brief written description of what you will be doing. Your proposal must be approved by me.
• Tuesday, May 19th - Evidence of progress - on or before this date you must show/explain to me what you have accomplished at this point in time.
• Thursday, May 28th - hand in a printout and demonstrate your project.

Second project.

• Monday, June 1st - Project proposal - hand in a brief written description of what you will be doing. Your proposal must be approved by me.
• Friday, June 5th - Evidence of progress - on or before this date you must show/explain to me what you have accomplished at this point in time.
• Friday, June 12th - hand in a printout and demonstrate your project.

Grading - Each of the two projects is out of 50 points.

• 3 Points - Written Project proposal
• 3 Points - Evidence of progress
• 4 Points - Presentation
• 15 Points - Project level of difficulty, (complexity)
• 15 Points - Use of good programming technique, (Quality of Code)
• 10 Points - Creativity

You are permitted to work in groups of two, but the scope and difficulty of your project must be more significant than if working alone.