Inheritance Lab: Adding Additional Games: Spring 2024

Learning Objective(s)

1. Learn to use inheritance.
2. Learn more about programming in groups

Overview of the Program

Specifics

• You must work in groups of two or more.
  • For each person in the group, another game is to be added (which means Tic Tac Toe should also work.)
  • Each person is solely responsible for the specifics of their own game
  • The group is responsible for the super classes and these must be shared.
  • Use GitHub to share your code.
  • The grade will be a combination of the shared work and the individual work
• Two recommended games are (because they are at a good level of complexity:
  • Reversi (also know as Othello)
  • Connect 4
• If an individual wants to choose a different game, be sure to get it approved during the first lab!
• The main method should be found in a program called GameDriver
• You may use your code from the previous labs or the posted solutions
• Your program can be textually or graphically. I highly recommend you get it going textually first since a graphical interface will not contribute to the grade

Phase 1

• First step is to work as a group and decide what code can go in the super classes and what code is specific to the individual games. The goal is to share as much as practical/possible
• Create a UML diagram for the super classes and for the subclasses for the TicTacToe game and share it with each member
• Then each member will expand the diagram for their own game.
• Each member will create a testing plan for their own game. It is recommended that each game allow for different size boards if appropriate
• The group can collaborate on any part of the software design reports except the parts that are specific to individual games. But each person must turn in their own report
• In outside resources, include a discussion of who is in the group and what each contributed to the design report
• Each member should submit their own Software Design Report as a single pdf

Phase 2

• create the super classes and the tic tac toe game as a group. Make sure they work. The driver will need to be expanded to allow the user to pick the game.
• post that code to a GitHub repository and make sure everyone in the group has access
• individually add your own game.
• create a Software Development Report incorporating any necessary changes from the software design report. Be sure to include detailed instructions on how to run your program, including any instructions for extra credit.
  • In Lessons Learned, include sections that talks about:
    • one or two things you learned by looking at the solution to the previous labs.
    • your reaction to working in groups
    • how using inheritance help (or hindered) the project
  • In Outside Resources Used discuss who did what (esp. in the shared portions of the lab)
• create a zip folder containing only the following
  • Each member's file (pdf) with their own completed software development report
  • all the .java files needed to run all the games
  • any input files you might want to have the grader use when running the program

Submission

• only one zip folder needs to be submit by one person in the group

Optional improvements

• Add one more additional game as a group.