IBCS2 Summer Assignment

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Directions

  • Due date: You must have all of the below completed by the first day of school.
  • The summer assignment is comprised of the following:
    1. Software development assignment (~1.5 hrs)
    2. CodingBat exercises (~2 hrs)
    3. Basic Creature Combat (~1.5 hrs)

Software Development Assignment

  • Read 1.1 SYSTEMS LIFE CYCLE (pages 2 - 8)
    1. Complete Exercise 1.1 #2 on (page 9)
  • Read 1.2 SYSTEMS ANALYSIS (pages 9 - 12)
    1. List the "classic ways" to investigate an existing system
    2. List the advantages and disadvantages of each "classic way"
  • Read 1.3 SYSTEM DESIGN (pages 13 - 23)
  • Read 1.4 SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPLICATIONS OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS (pages 24 - 29)
  • Read 1.5 THE SOFTWARE LIFE CYCLE (pages 29 - 30)
    1. List and describe the major stages of the software life cycle
    2. Why is the software life cycle cyclical?
  • Read 1.6 SOFTWARE DESIGN (pages 31 - 34)
    1. What is a prototype?
    2. What is the advantage of prototyping?
  • Read 1.7 DOCUMENTATION (pages 36 - 37)
    1. List and describe the 3 different types of documentation
  • Review the major points from Mr. Bui's slides: Media:SoftwareDevelopment.ppt

CodingBat Exercises

  1. If you don't have a CodingBat account, create one at CodingBat
  2. Go to prefs
  3. Go down to Teacher Share and share to Mr. Bui's e-mail address: BuiEmail.bmp
  4. Complete the Logic-2 exercises

Basic Creature Combat

  1. Install the Java Development Kit on your computer
  2. Install Eclipse Classic on your
  3. Create a new Java project named HelloWorldProject
  4. Inside HelloWorldProject, create a new Java class called HelloWorld and print "hello, world" to the screen to test it out
  5. If you run into any problems, please e-mail Mr. Bui
    • Complete the following to classes:
    1. Weapon class assignment
    2. Creature class assignment
  6. Be sure to test the classes using Media:CombatSimulation.java

Hard-core Bonus Challenge