COMP 110 Spring 2011

Description

You will write a java applet memory game similar to the example above. I have given you a starting program Memory.java where you will have to fill in the missing pieces. The program I have given you has some functionality, make sure you read the comments and understand which pieces you can change and which pieces you should not change.

This is a very hard program and I recommend starting simple and then adding more complicated features.

Think of the game board as a 2-dimensional array that holds matching pairs of integers. Each integer will display a different shape on the board.

Build an array that holds the values for your game board. Your board must be random. I recommend writing a method to display the values in your array to make sure they are correct (see page 504, or MyArrayTest.java).

• Declare and initialize a 4 x 4 2D array that holds integers.
• Your array will need to hold 8 different integers and each integer will need to be in the array twice. Matching integers will be your memory pairs.
• Your integers need to be randomly located in your array.

Start simple. Declare and initialize a 4 x 4 array and put the integers 0-15 in order in your array. (Display your array to make sure it is correct). Now change the numbers 8-15 to 0-7 (think %). Randomizing the numbers is the hard part and there are many different ways to do this but you will probably want to use Math.random().

Mouse Clicking

You have been given code that gets mouse clicks and sets xMouse and yMouse to the location of the mouse click. xMouse and yMouse will range from 0 to 399. You will be using the Graphics class to display your game board. The window is 400 x 400 with (0,0) in the upper left corner. You should think of the board as a visual array with board[0][0] as the top right corner and each bow is 100 x 100. To determine which square the user has selected you will need to convert the location of xMouse and yMouse to your array indices. There is a very easy way to do this without using if statements or switch statements. You will need to write a method that determines the current index location the user has selected

Game Display

Once you know which index the user has selected you will need to display a circle (or whatever shape you want) in the correct square on the board. You can determine the location of your shape by multiplying and adding your current index by numbers.

The color of your shape is determined by the integer in your 2D array. Write a method similar to you color method in Lab 7 to set the color of your shape. The integer you will pass in will be board[xIndex][yIndex] (the integer located in the xIndew, yIndex location in the array).

You should start thinking about the game functionality once you have everything else working. There is nothing tricky about the coding; this is just a logic problem. I recommend that you start this section with a piece of paper and pencil and write some pseudocode. Here are some things to think about and consider:

• You need to keep track of every two guesses
• You could use instance variables that keep track of the current guess and the previous guess
• You need to check if the current and previous guesses are the same
• If the user guessed incorrectly you will want the shapes to disappear. You can do this using the Graphics clearRect method. Look up this method in the Java Graphics class on the web.
• If the user guessed correctly, you should mark those boxes as found and make sure they are drawn each time you display the board.
• You may want to make sure the user has not guessed the same box twice
• There are many error checking things that need to be done for this program, however I do not expect you to complete them all

Grading

How to hand in the assignment

• A file named yourlastname_prg4.jar, where yourlastname is your last name. The .jar file should include Memory.java and Memory.class. There is no MANIFEST file for this program, since this is an applet.
• Your java files should have the appropriate header. Follow these instructions to create yourlastname_prg4.jar.
• Submit via Blackboard yourlastname_prg4.jar by 11:59pm Wednesday April 27th.
• Please let me know if you are having any problems with the assignment submission process.