CS241: Topics for the Week of August 27, 2007

• First Day Quiz (anonymous!).
• Discuss course structure and expectations
• Administration:
  • Sign-up for lab times.
  • Take photos.
  • Collect name aliases to use for posting grades.
• What is this course about?
• Lab 1: MindReader
• Why write games?
• Chapter 1 - Encapsulation
  • Good Programming - what are characteristics?
  • Terms
    • Encapsulation
    • Information Hiding
    • Polymorphism
    • Inheritance
    • Software engineering
    • Software Lifecycle: General Models
  • Review of Java
  • UML Diagrams
    • BeetleGameUML
    • FAQ
    • other
    • other
• Java Packages