Course Introduction
- Course Syllabus
- PowerPoint: APJavaIntroAndBasics.pptx
- Please enter your contact information
- Sign up for a free GitHub account.
- Free online interactive textbook: Think Java by Allen Downey and Chris Mayfield.
- Sign up for codingbat.com. In Prefs, put my email address simona1@sfusd.edu in the Teacher | share to field. Be sure to enter your name in last, first order.
Basic Workflow
- A Sample Assignment that shows how to use Processing and GitHub to put your AP Java assignments on the web.
Advanced Workflow
- Learn basic Unix Command Line navigation
- A Sample Assignment that uses git, GitHub and Sublime to simulate the workflow in professional software development
- Learn some more git at Try Git: Code School
Programming Assignments
- Original Design
- Lightning
- Dice
- Chemotaxis
- Starfield
- Old MacDonald
- Asteroids Game: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
- Google Billboard
- Pig Latin
- Palindrome Checker
- Sierpinski Triangle
- Create your own Fractal
- Fractal Tree
- Minesweeper
- Binary Search In Class Exercise
- Linear and Binary Searching Functions
- After the AP exam
PowerPoint Presentations
Worksheets
- while loops and solutions
- Math.random and solutions
- Practice with Classes and solutions
- Nested loops and solutions
- Arrays of Objects and solutions
- Encapsulation and solutions
- Inheritance and solutions
- SpaceShip Design
- Abstract Classes and solutions
- ArrayLists and Solutions
- For each loops and solutions
- Arrays and ArrayLists and solutions
- Review for fall final and solutions
- Pointers and solutions
- Recursion 1 has solutions on the back
- Recursion 2 and solutions
- Linear and Binary Search and solutions
- Sorting: 1A, 1A solutions, 1B, 1B solutions, 2A, 2A solutions, 2B, 2B solutions
- Binary and solutions
Examples and other resources
- Installing Processing and Atom on your home Windows, Mac or Linux computer
- Installing Processing and Sublime on your home Windows or Macintosh computer
- Help! My program runs in Processing but not on GitHub
- How to use an image as the background of your webpage
- How to make the background of an image transparent with Gimp
- A program that uses boolean variables to see if two keys are pressed simultaneoulsy
- How to put images in your program or webpage
- How to change the font of your webpage using Google fonts
- How to use Processing to create an animated gif
- Summer Programs in Computer Science and Engineering
- Letters of Recommendation
- Orbituary is a minimalistic orbiting Game created by former Lowell student Gideon Fox with Processing and GitHub
- Free interactive AP Java review site
Instructor Resources
- Course Pacing
- If your students are completely new to programming, you might want to start them off with a few of the Sparkfun Hotsheets Processing Projects
- The Sparkfun guide to Processing is an excellent resource for teaching Processing and features the hotsheets projects plus some additional ones