Module 9 Grading Guideline

Attendance
Attendance will be taken at three of the following five lectures:
4/2, 4/4, 4/7, 4/9, 4/14

Attending all three of the attendance days will earn you 70 points
on this lab.

Attending two of the three attendance days will earn you 60 points 
on this lab.

Attending one of the three attendance days will earn you 30 points
on this lab.

Attending zero of the three attendance days will earn you 0 points
on this lab.



The rest of your points will be made up by choosing one of the
following two activities: (both earning a maximum of 40 points)

Activity 1 (Coding)
Download and install Greenfoot (www.greenfoot.org) on your own 
computer.  Then, using the wombat or wombat2 scenario as a place
to start, create three of your own actors that can inhabit the 
world of the wombats.  Make it so they are either friends of the
wombats, or enemies of the wombats and act appropriately when 
they see a wombat.  At most one of the actors can be of the type
that simply sits on the screen and does nothing.  A food type
that moves away from the wombat or other actors as they approach
is completely acceptable.  You can also use the keyboard or 
mouse to control things the wombat world.  Look at other scenarios
and resources from the Greenfoot page to see how this is 
accomplished.  Each actor is worth 10 points.  Submission of a
zipped-up version of the scenario is worth 10 points.  You should
name your submission module9.zip and it should include the entire
contents of the scenario directory.  If you don't know how to use
a zip utility, that is also part of this lab assignment.

Activity 2 (Essay)
Having seen a demonstration of the Greenfoot environment in class
(also on the web if you were not there), and also having used DrJava,
discuss what features of each of them you liked and disliked.
[10 points]  Discuss what features of DrJava you liked and you felt
		     easy to use.  What features made working with your
			 programs easier.  If you have used other pieces of 
			 software to write programs, give the strengths of DrJava
			 versus the other software.
[10 points]  Discuss what features of DrJava you did not like or were
			 not easy to understand or use.  What do you think could
			 be done to improve these features?  If you have used 
			 other pieces of software for developing programs, give
			 any criticisms of DrJava based on what the other tools
			 offered that DrJava didn't. 
[10 points]  Take note of the Greenfoot environment and the way it
		     presents programming to students.  Do you feel this 
			 environment would have been easier to work with?  Do you
			 feel that the Greenfoot environment would have been more
			 fun to work with?  Should we use the Greenfoot environment
			 in future offerings of this course? (Note that there is
			 no textbook to use with this environment - how does that
			 fact impact your answer?)
[10 points]  This essay should be turned in as a PDF or Word document
			 only.  It should be no shorter than three pages (double 
			 spaced 12 point font, standard margins) in length.  It 
			 should be named module9.pdf or  module9.doc depending on 
			 what type of file it is.