COMP1400

As with assignment 1, there will be two phases to your submission of assignment 2:

Designs must be presented in the week 8 lab and hard-copies of your flowcharts given to your tutor.
Final implementation is due at the end of week 8 (Midnight Sunday 20 Sept)

You must submit your assignments online using the online ‘give‘ page. [...]

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For your second assignment, you will work in pairs to design and create an interactive game.
Requirements
Your program must include:

At least one user-defined class with 2 or more instances in the world.
At least 1 user-defined function with parameters (class-level and/or world-level).
At least 2 events with different handlers.

Pair work
Choose your partner in your Week 7 tutorial. It [...]

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The two student worlds from my lecture today:

Tennis, by Michael Chu
Basketball, by Jeremy Chan

As well as being interesting stories, both these assignments show very good design and code readability. It’s worth reading through the code and imitating their style.

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The final marks for COMP1400 have been sumbitted. You can collect your marks online at:
https://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~give/Student/sturec.php
Congratulations to everyone from Rex and I. You’ve been a great class and we’ve had a lot of fun teaching you (even marking your assignments!). Good luck with the rest of your degrees. Maybe I’ll see some of you in a [...]

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There is a problem with Q7 in the sample exam. It worked fine when I first wrote it, but now if I try to reconstruct the code in Alice, I get all manner of weird bugs. What it is supposed to do is iterate through all the elements in the array and double them (skipping [...]

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Hello all.  Yin Lin (our tutor) will be holding an exam revision session.  It will take place at 2pm Tuesday  October 28th in Oboe lab.  All welcome. Many thanks Yin Lin.

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Sample exam questions are now available.

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Just noticed that we have not made available the Alice worlds used in lectures.  They can be found in the worlds directory.

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A non-course related post:
The Global Game Jam is an event which aims to bring together artists, programmers and designers in locations all over the world, to spend a weekend working together in intense game development. Previous game jams have produced all manner of innovative game ideas.
UNSW is hosting the Sydney site, and I am the [...]

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In the lectures I have said that the indices for a list start from 1.  This is incorrect.  They start from 0, just like arrays.  The lecture material on “List Operations” has been corrected.

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