PIC 20 A,    Summer 2002

• [Project 6_1]   [According to our in-class discussion and the consensus reached this is an open-ended project.]  You need to pick an interesting problem that you solve by constructing a package edu.ucla.pic.pic20a.HW6. This package should be self-contained with source files properly organized in directories according to their states and behaviors (see HW5.html, for an example). Your package should compile, HTML document the source, jar and run well. You could include and use a version of the following batch file as a starting point for writing the script that: compiles, documents, jars and starts the application. On some systems you may have to save the BAT file content in a makefile or other script file, still the content transfers verbatim. [Proj6_1.jar, but this JAR file must contain the entire code, docs, classes, package. Everything!].

• The project you select must be interesting - think of choosing a project directly from your area of interest/work/research.
• You can utilize the internet and other resources for learning of clever way to do some specific things, but you can not download other people's complete programs and claim them as yours (no plagiarism!)
• It should be clear of how to compile or start the application/applet. Perhaps include a README file with instructions and summaries.
• You want to use a good OOP design, exception handling, GUI widgets, packaging, may be threads and file I/O, etc.
• The examples below are only suggestive to the type of projects you may want to consider, but this list is certainly not exclusive.
• The package does not have to be of professional quality or really complete for distribution, but it should be stable and it should illustrate the main concept of the problem addressed.
  
  

• Get a list of  gif  images from the user and animate them as a movie 500 milliseconds apart (frames-per-second)
• Graphics Package – draw an object of interest (circle, rectangle, line, cube, star, etc.) with pre-defined parameters (center, size, line-width, etc.) with a desired color
• Bouncing-ball application
• Scientific Calculator
• EmployeeRecordDatabase with file I/O
• OnlineChatRoom applet for handling Internet-based forum of communication, much like our VOH
• Client - server application for data transfer (secure!?!)
• Games - all kinds of games are clearly interesting
• FunctionGrapher - an applet that plots, and overlays, the graphs of several functions selected by the user, say interactively, or from a pre-defined list of available functions
• DiceRoller - an applet that allows the user to select a number of fair dice and a number of rolls and randomly runs the experiment of rolling the dice and plotting the histogram of the total observed sums across tosses at the end
  
  

Assignment 6, due date:   Thu., Aug. 15, 2002

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