AP Computer Science Lab Exercises

Chapter One

Lab Exercise 1A JCreator An introduction to the JCreator IDE.

Lab Exercise 1B Errors An exploration of the different types of errors that
you will encounter as you write programs.

Lab Exercise 1C String Modification An exploration of string modification that will be
useful to know as you write other programs.

Lab Exercise 1D Display An exercise to make a display on the screen.

Chapter Two

Lab Exercise 2A An introduction to identifiers, primitive types and operators.

Lab Exercise 2B A programming assignment to make a magic square.

Lab Exercise 2C An introduction to the String class and making String objects.

Lab Exercise 2D An introduction to the Math class and the DecimalFormat class.

Lab Exercise 2E A programming assignment to produce information regarding circles and spheres.

Lab Exercise 2F An exercise and programming assignment to applets and graphics programming.

Chapter Three

Lab Exercise 3A An introduction to conditional statements and a programming
assignment to calculate the date of Easter in any given year.

Lab Exercise 3B A programming assignment to program the game "ROCK, PAPER,
SCISSORS".

Lab Exercise 3C An introduction to loops and a programming assignment
to process student test data.

Lab Exercise 3D A lab exercise to introduce string tokenizer and methods
to convert roman numerals to arabic numbers or arabic numbers
to roman numerals.

Chapter Four

Lab Exercise 4A An introduction to classes and a programming assignment
to simulate the the roll of one die and a pair of dice.

Lab Exercise 4B A programming assignment to calculate student grades.

Lab Exercise 4C A programming assignment to explore some aspects of animation.

Lab Exercise 4D A programming assignment look at file input and
output using a student grades text file.

Chapter Five

Lab Exercise 5A An introduction to static methods.

Lab Exercise 5B An introduction to using interfaces.

Lab Exercise 5C An introduction to graphical user interfaces (GUI's).

Chapter Six

Lab Exercise 6A An introduction to arrays and a programming assignment
to simulate the the shuffling and dealing a deck of cards.

Lab Exercise 6B A programming assignment to use arrays to manipulate
matrices.

Lab Exercise 6C Using arrays to examine sorting algorithms.

Lab Exercise 6D A rewrite of program 4D that uses array lists to handle data.

Chapter Seven

Lab Exercise 7A An introduction to inheritance and a programming assignment
that uses inheritance to describe vehicles.

Lab Exercise 7B A programming assignment to construct a graphical
user interface (GUI) to create, save and edit user
information.

Chapter Eight

Lab Exercise 8A An introduction to recursion and a programming assignment
that uses recursion in the quick sort algorithm.

Lab Exercise 8B A programming assignment to compare recursion
and iterations to find Euler's constant.

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