Practicals

You can now register for practical and tutorial sessions through http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mycourses.

Arrangements

Weekly Practicals

Solutions

Problem Bank

The allocations to groups and practicals will be available here. If you do not appear on this list, it is because you have not registered on-line. Please do so following the link http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mycourses.

You are required to attend one 2-hour practical session per week. Practicals are held in teaching weeks 2-12 inclusive. A register will be taken.

You should sit with your group - your demonstrator will show you where.

	Day	Time	Place	Groups	Demonstrator
P1	Monday	11:00-13:00	Cruickshank 218	A, C, D, G, I, K	Dr. Murat Sensoy
P2	Monday	15:00-17:00	Cruickshank 218	D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L	Dr. Murat Sensoy, Dr. Wei Pang
P3	Friday	12:00-14:00	Edward Wright F84	A, B, F, H, M	Dr. Wei Pang, Dr. Alan Eckhardt

Work to be completed in the practicals will be set during the preceding week, and will be listed on this web page. Your demonstrator will ask to see this work during the practical.

You should attend one 1-hour group mentoring session per week during teaching weeks 2-12 inclusive. A register will be taken.

	Groups	Day	Time	Place
M1	A, B	Monday	15:00-16:00	Taylor C17
M2	C, D, E, F	Tuesday	13:00-14:00	Meston 013
M3	G, H	Tuesday	13:00-14:00	Meston 159
M4	I, K, L, M	Wednesday	13:00-14:00	Meston 159

Week 1: You have no practical this week. Spend your time experimenting with the UserDialog class as discussed in our lectures so that you are familiar with what you can do with it.

Week 2: JavAir

Week 3: You should have completed the JavAir problem by the time of your practical. Show your solution to your demonstrator. The problem for week 3 is PhoneBook

Week 4: You should have completed the PhoneBook problem by the time of your practical. Show your solution to your demonstrator. The problem for week 4 is StockControl

Week 5: You should have completed the StockControl problem by the time of your practical. Show your solution to your demonstrator. The problem for week 5 is JavAirPlus

Weeks 6-8: The problem for weeks 6 to 8 (i.e. to the start of the Spring break) is SuperSim. You should work on this in the groups to which you have been allocated. See the handout for the rules which apply to the operation of groups. The deadline for submission is 12 noon Friday 23 March.

Week 9: The problem for week 9 (Student Registration) is intended to give you experience with inheritance. At the time of their practical, CS1515 students won't have covered all they need to do to tackle this, but look at the Questionnaire example discussed in our lectures and a solution, to give you some inspiration.

Weeks 10-12: The problem for weeks 10 to 12 (i.e. to the end of teaching) is Road Pricing. You must work on this on your own. The deadline for submission is 12 noon on Friday 11th May.

Solutions will be made available in the week following the practical.

Week 2: JavAir

Week 3: PhoneBook

Week 4: StockControl

Week 5: JavAirPlus

Weeks 6-8: SuperSim

Week 9: Student Registration

Weeks 10-12: RoadPricing

There is a 'bank' of practical problems for you to work on. For each problem, there is a discussion on the sort of Java knowledge required to solve it and an indication of the number of lines of code in a reference solution.

For some of the problems, some help is available in the form of pseudocode or a 'skeleton'. A skeleton is a precise description of what needs to be done to solve the problem, often with some code already provided. Do not go straight to this. Part of what you need to learn is how to go from the informal specification in the problem to the kind of detail provided in the skeleton. At some point there will be code provided as a solution to the problem, but in a sense you shouldn't need this. Writing your own code and discussing it with your demonstrator is the best 'solution'. Some of the problems will be discussed in lectures. This should not stop you completing them yourself.

Problem	Content	Help	Notes
Simple Counter	One class; conditionsl (if)	Solution	N/A
Stadium	One class; conditions (if), loop (while)	Slides Solution	Revision slides
JavAir	One class; conditions (if), loop (while)	Solution	Week 2 Practical
Parcel Tracking	Two classes plus test class; collection (ArrayList); conditionals (if), iteration (while, for)	Solution	N/A
Phone Book	Two classes; collection (ArrayList); conditionals (if), iteration (while, for)	Solution	Week 3 Practical
Train Timetable	Two classes; collection (ArrayList); conditionals(if); iteration (while, nested for)	Solution	Slides
Stock Control	Three classes, two array lists;	Solution	Week 4 Practical
Car Park	Two classes, simulation with random numbers	Solution	Slides
Packet Switch	Two classes, simulation with random numbers	Solution	Slides
Java Air Plus	Three classes, simulation with random numbers	Solution	Week 5 Practical
Channel Simulation	Demo of more complex simulation	Solution	Slides
Foxes and Rabbits	Simulation demo from Barnes and Kölling	Demo	N/A
The Office	Three classes; collections (ArrayList or HashSet); conditionals and iteration	Skeleton (PDF) Skeleton (ZIP)	N/A
Multi-Choice	One class; text file reading; arrays	answers.txt Solution	N/A
Win A Lot	One class; text file reading; arrays	tickets.txt Solution	N/A
Registration	Five classes, inheritance, text file writing, ArrayList	Solution	Week 9 Practical
Questionnaire	Four classes, inheritance, text file writing, ArrayList	Solution	N/A