CS141: Topics for March 10, 12, & 14, 2014

• Next Exam will in one week, on Mon, Mar 17

  • We will review this Friday.
  • See study page.
• Labs
  • Wed: Review work for Lab 5: Bouncing Balls.
  • Begin Lab 6: Turtle Graphics.

• Review 1D Arrays from last week

• 2D Arrays

  • Declaring and creating
  • Accessing
  • Cellular Automaton Example

• Function return values. See Simple example.

• Begin discussion of recursion (See Examples in Lab 6) :

  • What is recursion?
  • Fractals and recursion
  • Examples: Printing an array, calculating factorial or the Fibonacci Series
  • Turtle Graphics
  • Turtle Graphics with Recursion
  • See Shiffman videos:
    • 8.1 Fractals
    • 8.2 Fractal Recursion
    • 8.4 Recursion with Transformations