Choose Your Own Assignment

CHOOSE YOUR OWN ASSIGNMENT

Assignment: Make a program with arrays and array functions. Get it approved first.

Analysis/Design

There is a list of games and array functions at the bottom.
You can not pick the same game as anyone else in the class.
Hand in a proposal to secure your choice:

Name: Ms. Gorski

Game: Soccer Database

Description: Simple database that stores information on soccer players. Stores first name, last name, points.

Array Type: 3 Parallel Arrays. Partially Filled.

Applet: Not in an applet

Functions:
1. Print players
2. Add new player
3. Delete player
4. Average points
5. Name of Max points
6. Name of Min points

Application Rubric

Assignment: Make a program with arrays. Database, game, inventory, whatever. Get it approved first.

Level	1	2	3	4
Array Functions	Print And 1 other.	Print And 3 others.	Print And 5 others.	Print And many others. Complex.
Array Declaration	One 1D array	Two 1D arrays	Three or more 1D arrays.	2D array or an array of objects or a partially filled array.
Set Up	Application	Application with titles and good instructions.	Applet or Application with a lot of ASCII art and nice formatting.	Applet with many extra features and pictures or complex array game.
Comments and style	3 title comments.	A few other comments appear.	New features and pictures are sourced at the top OR methods. A lot of comments.	Both of level 3.

Array Functions

Insert/add
Remove/delete
Sort
Search
Print
Max, min
Average, sum
Count/Histogram
Who won
Move a piece
Other manipulation (lines disappear, calculate a win, etc.)

Here are some suggestions of suitable assignments:

Database of hockey players, or baseball players, or singers, or Disney characters.
Database of friends and their phone numbers.
Sudoku Types of games: There are many on this page including, Cats and Pigs: http://www.mathfair.com/sudokutype.html
Coin jumping I, Nine Men in the Hole: http://www.mathfair.com/puzzles.html
Simple 1D Peg Game
Tic Tac Toe
Avoidance Tic-Tac-Toe (also known as Misère Tic-Tac-Toe or Toe-Tac-Tic): Same order of play as the standard game, except that a player who completes three in a row loses.
Achi http://www.math.cornell.edu/~mec/2003-2004/graphtheory/tictactoe/howtoplayttt.html#achi
Your Choice Tic-Tac-Toe: Each player may put down either an X or an O on each of their turns, and may change their mind from turn to turn. The winner is the one who finishes any row, column, or diagonal of all X's or all O's.
Magic Square Tic-Tac-Toe: Instead of X's and O's, the numbers 1 through 9 are used. Each number may be used only once. The winner is the one to get the numbers in any row, column, or diagonal to add up to 15.
Last One Wins: (Tic-tac-toe variant) On a player's turn, that player marks as many non-empty spaces as they like, as long as they are in the same row or column (not diagonal). Whoever fills in the last space wins.
Drawbridge: (Tic-tac-toe variant) Same order of play as the standard game, only one player wins if the game is a draw, while the other wins if either completes three in a row.
Movable Markers: (Tic-tac-toe variant) Players have three counters each and take turns placing them on the grid. If neither has won after all six counters are down, players may move one of their counters somewhere else as their move.
The Numbers Game: (Tic-tac-toe variant) Players take turns selecting a number between 1 and 9. Each number may be selected only once. The first person to accumulate three numbers whose sum is 15 is the winner.
2D Peg Game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peg_solitaire
Slider Game: http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/sliders/sliders.html (3X3 is fine)
Game of Nim
Matching Game: Matches pairs of cards. Flips over two at a time.
Mastermind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)
Lights Out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_Out_(game)
Connect 4 - it's hard!