The End of the Road is now in sight, and has been posted.

Here are Dan Grossman’s parallelism materials we’ll be using heavily for the rest of the semester. (Scroll down to get to the slide decks.)

Here is a practice SWYK check for your edification and enjoyment.

I was just astonished to learn that apparently, my Canvas settings were set so that students cannot see the correct answers after the quiz! :-O That seems like the dumbest thing in the world — you guess “Decorator” for the last question on quiz #5, and know you got it wrong, but never learn what…

Oh well. At this point I’m out of ideas and will just cancel the rest of class for today. See you guys on Monday.

Really sucks because I was going to start the parallelism and concurrency unit today, and was actually pretty excited about it. Oh well, I can’t think of any easy way out at this point, besides an Uber, which I’ll consider. In the meantime, take your quiz in the usual place and in the usual way.…

My car needs an oil change. For today only (Nov 14) I’ll have office hours 2:30-3:30pm instead of the usual 11:30am-12:30pm. Sorry for any inconvenience!

As of this week, I’ll be returning to the O.G. office hours I established at the start of the semester.

Props to Garrett and Henry for explaining my own LotR example today in a way that I finally understood, lol. (An additional +1 extra credit to them both, ka-ching.) On Wednesday I’ll explain in detail the apparent paradoxes they helped me understand! And also, as I said at the end of class, the fact that…

The second stage of your final “Zork++” project has been posted, and is due a week from Wednesday! Happy coding!

Here’s the example from today, and the correct output.

I’ll be on email, though, so please do send questions! Depending on the timing, I might also be able to hop on Zoom.

I simply forgot all about office hours tonight (Mon the 4th) — sorry, guys! I can meet on Zoom between now and 9 if you’d like. Just drop me a line.

I forgot to ask for the turn-ins for Monday’s Uno design activity this week. If your team brings them to me Monday, you can still get your up-to-3 extra credit points for this. (Give them to me even if I don’t ask for them! I’m prone to forget.)

I won’t be in until 11am today. At exactly 10am, please begin Canvas quiz #4, as per usual. Be sure to type and sign the Honor Pledge correctly at the end! See you at 11!

If your team’s Zork III didn’t really turn out, you are encouraged to use my own solution as a starting point for your Zork++ phase 2. (I know, we’re not on phase 2 yet, but I figured I’d post it in Canvas (zorkIII_stephen.git on Files tab) while I was thinking about it.)

I’m going to cancel class today (Wednesday) and let you guys focus on your Zork++ projects. I’ve had some good design ideas run by me so far — keep up the creativity!

Here are the updated versions of my Game-of-Thrones-themed dungeon files: for Zork III for Zork++ Sorry I didn’t post the first of these sooner. If you and your team download the Zork III version, and try to play through it, only to discover your game engine breaks on it, I will give you until Wednesday…

The first stage of your final “Zork++” project has been posted, and is due a week from Friday! Start early, respect team boundaries, and give yourself enough time to succeed on this!

If you’d like to look at my solution to Friday’s SWYK check, here it is. Food.java Microwave.java

If you ever get this message when trying to init a new repo: hint: Using ‘master’ as the name for the initial branch. This default branch name hint: is subject to change. To configure the initial branch name to use in all hint: of your new repositories, which will suppress this warning, call: hint: hint:…

github’s documentation seems to be rather coy about this, but I believe that the following statement is true: sometime in the past couple years, github changed their policy and began to mandate that users create SSH key pairs to connect to it, rather than suggest that they do. (Using SSH keys for this is absolutely…

$ git config pull.rebase false

You should have received your Zork project team assignments in your email (if not, check your spam box, then ask me to re-send) and you are now ready to consider the first team stage of your quest! This is due inviolably at midnight a week from Friday, so DO! NOT! waste any time in getting…

So, I didn’t type out these instructions again (from Igpay) but it’s the same deal for all the assignments: you must tell me what works and doesn’t when you submit: Warning!! One of the following two things must be true for you to get any credit for this assignment. Either: your program must, to your…

If your Zork II was a train wreck, and/or you just want to look at my solution, it is now available in Canvas (Files tab).

Do not send requests for help (or anything else besides submissions) to the class “submissions” email address! I do not check that on a daily basis, and now upon grading Zork I see that a few people asked questions that way, which were never delivered. Be sure to send those to my UMW email!

Here’s my SWYK 2 solution for you to study if you’d like to.

So, a couple students had the same really good question: the Exit constructor needs to get Room objects from the Dungeon, but there’s no way to get the Dungeon unless you go to the GameState to get it. But won’t the GameState only learn about which Dungeon is getting instantiated too late in the game?…

When you get your hydration good and working, make sure it works on this sample file. (You can download westeros.zork to your workspace by typing: $ wget http://stephendavies.org/cpsc240/westeros.zork That will put it in your current directory (the directory you were in when you typed the wget command). If you want it somewhere else, of course…

Sorry for the goof! The current homework assignment has now been updated with the correct diagram.

Because I screwed up the diagram on the Zork II assignment description, I’m pushing that assignment back two days until Friday Oct 11. I will post the correct, revised diagram later this afternoon — stay tuned.

Hot off the presses from today’s class: Our updated Car.java class Our updated Caravan.java class Our new (and super-unexciting) NoMoreCarsException.java class

If your Zork I really didn’t come together, for whatever reason, I suggest you use my Zork I as a starting point for your Zork II. You can find it in the “Files” tab of Canvas. All you need to do is get that zorkI_stephen.git file into your home directory on cpsc, then: “git clone…

If you hadn’t already guessed, office hours will be on Zoom only this week. Just drop me an email if you’d like to hook up!

Here’s the updated Caravan (and Car) classes from our persistence/hydration session today. All roads lead to Garrett.

The bevy of Covid cases sweeping through CPSC is scaring me enough that I want to take some evasive action. For this reason, class will be online this coming week (Sep 30, Oct 2, and Oct 4). The Zoom link is in the Canvas announcement I made before the beginning of the semester. If you…

I’ve had seven students email me to tell me they have Covid and will have to miss class. So I’m going to go ahead and cancel tomorrow’s class. We will still have quiz #2 in Canvas which will open at exactly 10am. You should take it in a quiet place where you will be free…

Here’s my answer to Monday’s sequence diagram challenge:

A reminder of something I said in class quickly the other day: the Zork I UML class diagram is missing a “has-a” arrow from Dungeon to Room called “entryRoom“. I can recreate the diagram, but then my software will redraw and reposition everything, and I think that might be disorienting to you. So I’ll just…

If you’d like to see a barely-legible version of the Mordor Zork dungeon example I showed on the whiteboard today, be my guest. Also: a few students approached me who want to set up a rescue fund for Cole, who is trapped in the Mt. Doom lava pit. If you’d like to donate, let me…

Here is a sequence diagram depicting a big chunk of the Zork I functionality (click to zoom): If you follow this carefully, it will reveal a tremendous amount of useful information directly applicable to the current homework.

As I indicated, this first (and only the first) SWYK check will be graded more leniently than the others, since you guys were getting used to the process and some people had a hard time getting the commands typed in correctly, etc. For this reason, I instituted a hard floor of 7 points out of…

My Zoom is taking up more CPU cycles than I’d like, so I’m going to shut it off when not in use. If you’d like to Zoom during office hours, please just send me an email, and I’ll be happy to open up!

For those of you who wanted to look at the Car example we did in class, here it is! (and Caravan too)

Your attention, please! The first of our six SWYK (Show What Y’all Know) checks will be this Friday, Sep. 20 at 10am! I’ll talk more about what it will entail on Wednesday, but in the meantime it wouldn’t hurt to attend Matt’s weekly “SWYK session” in lab aide hours tonight, during which he will walk…

The first stage in your Zork journey this semester has been posted, and is due by the stroke of midnight on Saturday, Sept. 28th. This assignment is not for the faint of heart. It will require skill, ingenuity, consistency, dedication, and perseverance to complete. The first thing you should do — right now, after brewing…

For various reasons, I’m going to be radically switching my office hours around between now and Thanksgiving to be in the evening. The new office hours, starting this week, are in James Farmer Hall 044, or on Zoom, at the following times: Mondays 7-9pm Tuesdays 7-8pm Wednesdays 7-9pm or by appointment. As always I’m willing…

Please take some time between now and next Tuesday at midnight to complete this homework assignment. And have fun!

Today is quiz #1, which will start promptly at 10am in the classroom. Please bring your laptop, fully charged and with charging cable, and be at a comfortable seat when class begins. (For those who need it, there is a distraction-free room adjacent to the classroom just down the little hall to my office. It…

Hit me up at the usual link.

Sorry for the last-minute notice, but class will be canceled on Monday, Sep 9th. Instead of having lecture, you should print out this crazy 4-page Java program, and with zero-to-three fellow CPSC 240 students of your choice, work through it manually and figure out what the output of the program is. (By “the output of…

FYI, Monday’s office hours will be virtual (over Zoom). You can find the link in the opening semester Canvas announcement.

To get credit for the development environment setup, all you need to include in your email is your slang phrase. I trust that you did all the rest.

Here are some methods of the String class that you might find useful on your Igpay assignment.

I said “see you Monday, everybody!” at the end of class today, but of course I meant Wednesday since Monday is Labor Day.

Your first programming assignment of the semester has been posted, and is due on Tuesday, Sep. 12th at midnight. Don’t delay, start right away!

The drop-in hours for our CPSC student lab aides have been posted. All these hours will begin this coming week (Sep 3rd). Take advantage of this resource this semester, especially if you find yourself struggling!

Greetings, and welcome to the fall 2024 edition of CPSC 240: Object-oriented Analysis & Design with Stephen! This site is gonna be hip-hoppin’ with all kinds of great stuff real soon, so stay tuned!