Lab Check-Offs

On this page, you will find a list of check-off questions for each lab.

Lab 1 Intro to Karel

What are the four methods available in Karel’s world?
What does computational thinking mean to you?
Show me your diagonal Karel program.
Show me your dance Karel program.

Lab 2 Karel Methods and Decomposition

What are the assumptions we make about the world when the fillPothole() method is called in pothole karel?
What is top down design?
Show me your decomposed diagonal Karel program.
Show me your pancake Karel program where you have defined at least two methods to help solve the problem.

Lab 3 Loops & Conditions

Explain how the while loop works.
Explain how the for loop works.
Show me your City Line Tower Karel.
Show me your Karel Go Home code. What smaller problems did you break Karel Go Home into?
Show me your Face East Karel. What were the conditions that you had to write?

Lab 4 While Loop Bugs, Debugging, Formatting

Explain what an off by one error or fence post error means.
Show me your formatted Square Karel, City Line Tower Karel, and Face East Karel.
What was the bug in the Debug & Format: Pick up balls Karel?
What might it me when you see this “error: ‘;’ expected”.
When should you indent your code over?

Lab 5 Welcome to Java!

What is the equivalent of the run() method we use for Karel in Java?
How do you display something to the terminal?
What is the command for running a Java program?
Show me your Hampton Chatbot.
Show me your print numbers 0-N.

Lab 6 [Java Variables & Types]

What are the 3 things you need to write when declaring a variable?
Explain how a for loop works.
Show me your Computer Science Rocks problem.
How did you fix your program so that it doesn’t overdraft from a bank account?
Show me your chatbot.

Lab 7 [Strings, Variable Scope, and Method Parameters]

What is the type of the parameters you declared for the average2 method?
What is the difference between a paramter and an arguement?
When your method only prints and doesn’t return anything what should the return type be?
Show me your decomposed deposit and withdraw from bank account.
Show me Highest and Lowest among 3 numbers how did you test your code?

Lab 8 [Strings]

What String method can you use to get part of a string?
What is the return type of the charAt() method?
Show me your password validation method. What is the return type of the validPassword method?
What is the index of the first character of a String?
Show me your reverse string method.

Lab 9 [Arrays]

How would you initialize an array of integers of size 8?
What is the syntax for setting an element of an array?
What is an index?
Show me your removeFirstAndLast method in array practice?
What is the difference between an Array and ArrayList?

Lab 10 [Arrays]

What is the running time of the unique names solution?
Explain the binary search code.
What is a pixel?
What is the range of the RGB values?

Lab 11 [Arrays]

Show me you have java installed.
What IDE did you download and why?