TJ CS Units 2015-2016
Topic list from the CS Packets

1. Karel the Robot
   • Classes and Objects: Hello Robot, Students and Books, Escape the Maze, Robot and Athlete class, Constructors
   • Inheritance and Methods: Climber class, Climber Every Mountain, Take the Field, class and instance methods, Shuttle Run, for and while loops, Racer clas, Half-Dozen Tasks, boolean logic and conditionals
   • Algorithms and Polymorphism: Exploration, HillClimber and StepClimber, Hurdle Racing, type casting, Shifting Piles, decision structures, Maze Escaping
   • Abstract classes and Interfaces: ID number, Harvesting and Carpeting, Synchronized Swimming, Dancing Robots, Shifty Robots, Republicans and Democrats
   • Return, break, and continue: Treasure Hunt, Yellow Brick Road
   • Recursion intro
2. Graphics and Animation
   • Graphics: Panels/Frames, Subway Graffiti, Welcome Home, Jefferson the 'Fearless Leader', Webbing and Sunshine picture
   • Static vs Instance, Class vs Object: Buckets, Bugs, Square turtles, Polygon turtles, Flower turtles, Twisty turtles
   • Animation: Polka dots, Bouncing ball, Get the Prize, Riddle, Bumper, Karel, Mouse and Keyboard input, Turtle from scratch, Array of Polkadots, Array of Prizes
3. GUIs and I/O
   • GUI Programming: Hello Button, Text Box, Multiple Buttons, Primitive data types and operations, Hailstone Numbers
   • the Black Box: Odometer, Press Your Luck, GCD and LCM
   • GUI formatting: Sum of a series, Subway tokens, High – Low, Last Stone Wins, Border and Grid layouts
   • I/O Window Output: JoptionPane, Asterisks, The Necklace, Bowling
   • Additional GUI topics: More GUI Components, Debuggers, Mixing Graphics and GUIs
4. Data Storage - Arrays, Files, Matrices
   • Arrays and Files: Hello Array and Scanner, Sum/Avg/Min/Max of arrays, Fahrenheit to Celsius, Text Files, Try/Catch blocks
   • Objects in Arrays: Luck of Many rolls, Shapes and Areas, Array of Shapes, Dictionary
   • GUI Components and Arrays: Miniature Golf, Binary Reversal, Binary to Decimal, Decimal to Binary, Guess the Number
   • Two-Dimensional Arrays (Matrices): Miniature Golf, Foursome, Battleship, Tic-Tac-Toe, Mastermind
5. Data Processing
   • Sorting Numbers: Find Min, Find Max, Selection Sort algorithm, Modular Design, Scramble and Sort
   • Sorting Objects: Sorting Weights, Sorting Distances, Sorting Strings, Stu's Used Car Lot
   • String Parsing: EMail Addresses, Package Names, Musical Strings
   • Recursion: Recursive Computations, Folder Listing, Towers of Hanoi, Fractal Trees, Binary Search