Direct Entry
For students wanting to gauge their programming skills with a view to entering at second or third year.
Background
For many programmes it is important that you have the ability to build programs in Java. This section shows you the kinds of skills that are taught in first and second year. You can follow the tutorials and take the tests.
Graphics
The first programming exercise involves drawing images using the Java Graphics2D. We don't expect you to know all of the classes and methods; so don't worry if you have never heard of the methods fillRect
or drawLine
, what is important is that you can use these methods after you have seen some examples.
Algorithms
You should be able to develop algorithms to solve problems. Most of these examples use arrays and loops.