ICS111 Final Project

Starting out in my first ICS class as a freshly declared ICS major, switching from Electrical Engineering, I knew no one in my class. With a little bit of background on the C language, I caught on with the syntax fairly quickly. The professor provided us with a Java file that contained just about all the functions we would need for the assignments in the class. The file was called EZ.java, which literally made things easier. We would have to look through the file to see what functions we would need to accomplish what we needed to do for the assignment since all we have to know is what to use. This made the assignments a lot easier since there was no complicated functions that we had to write on our own. We utilized this file heavily to add, move, and remove images easily.

For the final project, we had to work in groups of 3 or 4. I did not know anyone in the class so I waited for the other left over people to be placed in groups. I got placed in a group with two others who had already started brainstorming ideas. They filled me in on the ideas and I was all for it. We went through multiple drafts of what we wanted to make. After consulting with our TA multiple times, we ended up with a spaceship shooting game. We had to decide who did what. One person did the main and obstacles, another person did the spaceship, and I did the bullets. It took us about a week of working on it just about everyday to put our finished individual parts together and tweak it to make sure everything worked together. The objective of the game is to survive as long as possible to destroying the obstacles. To move, use the wasd keys and press spacebar to shoot. You have 3 lives so the game ends when you run out of lives and a game over screen is displayed with your score. We learned to communicate effectively so we could be as efficient as possible and help each other out if we got stuck.

Here is the finished project.