====== Week 8: Arrays and Loops ======

===== Objectives =====

  * Examine techniques for teaching students about arrays and loops.


===== Readings for Class Discussion =====

  * Eagle & Barnes (2008). [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1384271.1384337|Wu's castle: teaching arrays and loops in a game]]
  * Review chapters in Horstmann text on Arrays and Array Lists

**Optional Readings**

  * Burger (2003).  [[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=792548.611970|Teaching two-dimensional array concepts in Java with image processing examples]]

Videos

  * Khan Academy. [[http://www.khanacademy.org/video/for-loops-in-python|For Loops in Python]] and [[http://www.khanacademy.org/video/while-loops-in-python|While Loops in Python]]

===== Topics =====

  * Understanding arrays (one and two dimensional, arrays of arrays)
  * Arrays of objects
  * Dynamic arrays and generics
  * Explaining loops and their relationship to arrays

===== Lab ======

  * AP CS: Designing Classes; Interfaces and Polymorphism