In this assignment, students will be creating mosaics in Python. Students will work to generate tessellations, such as Ring and Hex. Functions must be composed to generate the various images.

In this lab, students work to design, develop, and debug a game. In particular, students must use UML and pseudocode to create 'Connect 4' (a popular board game). The methods should be designed to handle the complexity of the potential game moves and the student must clearly illustrate how their program design accounts for the various conditions under which this scenario occurs.

In this lab, students work to create a square with Turtle graphics and pseudocode. Using the Turtle class in Java, students must create a 'filled-in square.' To start, students must create the program using pseudocode and then, after the algorithm for creating the shape has been defined, write the actual algorithm.

In this lab, students work to create a 'painting' program. The Java program must use variables and methods to store values and perform actions, respectively, for painting. To abstract this idea beyond custom methods, students must create interfaces. Specifically, students are to create an interface where the user can (and must) implement all methods in that interface.

In this lab, students work collaboratively to create graphical representations of class relationships. Using UML and Java, students must build containment diagrams (shows an instance or instances of classes that are contained, or instantiated, within the class) and inheritance diagrams (shows how one or more class extends, or inherits, from the class to which the arrow is pointing).

In this lab, students work to create a program with classes in Java. Starting with a review of packages, classes, methods, parameters, and constructors, students will create a program that builds a 'cupcake.'

In this project students work individually or collaboratively to implement a tower defense game in which ants defend their colony from attacking bees. Students must implement several subclasses of the Ant class, each with their own unique abilities, as well as a class Water that descends from Place. The classes that students write must interact with several other classes.

In this project students work either individually or in pairs to implement the game Hog, a dice game in which players try to be the first to reach 100 points by choosing how many dice to roll each turn. Students must write functions that control the general flow of the game, roll the dice for a turn, and choose a strategy for the computer. For full credit, students must create a strategy with a win rate of at least 59%.

In this project, student's explore the technological side of mail forwarding, by writing a program that determines whether individual pieces of mail should be forwarded and, if so, the address to which they should be forwarded. Along the way, student's gain experience implementing their own data structure called a singly-linked list. This assignment is excellent for students that want additional exposure to an intuitive example of fundamental data structures, or more practice implementing classes.

In this project, students build a Java interpreter for a limited version of BASIC called Facile. The interpreter manages variables, mathematical operations, conditional statements, functional decomposition, and its own call-stack. As part of the activity students test the interpreter with JUnit. This project is for students that would like to explore building an interpreter, or for students that may have an interest in the general workings of compilers and programming languages on a smaller scale.