I am open sourcing my high school APCS project (opens in new tab)

(github.com)

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ohazi12y ago· 3 in thread

Does anybody remember that fish tank simulation? Are they still doing that?

dailycavalier12y ago

Ah yes, the "Marine Biology Simulation". It looks like the College Board is still using it.

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/courses/teache...

mccolin12y ago

I had APCS around the time they were winding down C++ and ramping up Java. We had to implement BigInt, among other things, as part of our project (circa 2000). I believe the next years my friends had the fish simulation.

albertyw12y ago

I wonder how long it'll take College Board to move to a more expressive language like Python or Ruby. The basicness of AP CS (learning loops, recursion, and simple OO) means students don't learn enough about programming for the benefits of Java to be apparent. I knew a lot of classmates who were put off of programming by APCS, not least because of the verbosity and density of Java.

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unimpressive12y ago· 3 in thread

May I ask TempleOS (Who is better known as Losethos and is hellbanned due to having schizophrenia.) what that is a picture of?

EDIT: It'd be really nice if I could reply to hellbanned users, even if only they can see it.

shawnz12y ago

It seems to be a CNC machine capable of printing frosting!

http://www.templeos.org/images/Frosting.jpg http://www.templeos.org/images/CttnTail.jpg

ancarda12y ago

I like how people put "machine.jpg" as a file name. It's very descriptive. If I had to guess, it looks like a home made CNC machine.

iso-8859-112y ago

I don't think he was hellbanned for the schizophrenia specifically.

bowmessage12y ago

Hey, I wrote something similar my Senior year in HS. Learned a ton doing it. Had my friends do level, graphic, and sound design. It was a multiplayer networked shooter but it wasn't anywhere near perfect. Here's the link!

https://github.com/bowmessage/Cantro

DesaiAshu12y ago

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