{"id":191,"date":"2016-11-17T13:39:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T13:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartlettpublishing.com\/site\/?p=191"},"modified":"2016-11-19T03:37:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T03:37:30","slug":"fall-2016-week-13-class-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartlettpublishing.com\/site\/2016\/11\/17\/fall-2016-week-13-class-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2016 &#8211; Week 13 Class Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have two more classes before the end of the semester, but NO CLASS NEXT WEEK for Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n<p><b>Programming<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We started working on object-oriented programming and arrays this week.  Remember, the goal of objects is to package up a bunch of related information into a single unit.  Whenever you have information about a subject that all belongs together, creating an object is a good way to go.<\/p>\n<p>We also talked about arrays, which allow us to store sequences of values (usually, arrays are used to store similar values, but they don&#8217;t have to).<\/p>\n<p>We need to be thinking about what we want to do next semester.  Some options:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Simple games in JavaScript<\/li>\n<li>Dealing with server-side programming<\/li>\n<li>Communicating with and using third-party services like Google maps<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The start of the next year we will review and finish the book, but then we need to proceed to an application area.<\/p>\n<p>For you to do this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read chapter 13<\/li>\n<li>Turn in your section 3 assignment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Electronics<\/b><\/p>\n<p>For some reason, the Tennis game did not work on a lot of your devices.  I am investigating this over the week.  I have used this game several times before and it has always worked well, so we will figure it out.<\/p>\n<p>I am working on the next book chapter, and will hopefully have it done by Friday (<b>UPDATE<\/b> &#8211; the chapter is now complete).<\/p>\n<p>Please spend some extra time reviewing chapters you aren&#8217;t familiar with.  A lot of you were not familiar with pull-down resistors, which is a <i>requirement<\/i> for knowing how to put this stuff together.<\/p>\n<p><b>Calculus<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Keep on trucking.  We are going through chapter 17 this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have two more classes before the end of the semester, but NO CLASS NEXT WEEK for Thanksgiving! Programming We started working on object-oriented programming and arrays this week. Remember, the goal of objects is to package up a bunch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartlettpublishing.com\/site\/2016\/11\/17\/fall-2016-week-13-class-notes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartlettpublishing.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartlettpublishing.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartlettpublishing.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartlettpublishing.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartlettpublishing.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartlettpublishing.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartlettpublishing.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartlettpublishing.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartlettpublishing.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartlettpublishing.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}