Week 8: Arrays and Loops

• Examine techniques for teaching students about arrays and loops.

• Eagle & Barnes (2008). Wu's castle: teaching arrays and loops in a game
• Review chapters in Horstmann text on Arrays and Array Lists

Optional Readings

• Burger (2003). Teaching two-dimensional array concepts in Java with image processing examples

Videos

• Khan Academy. For Loops in Python and While Loops in Python

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

• AP CS: Designing Classes; Interfaces and Polymorphism