Assignment 7

The Assignment

Submission

• Email your code to ztomasze@hawaii.edu.
• Include a fully-qualified URL to your working applet online.

Recommendations

You do not need to have your applet learn about animals. You can choose a different universe of discourse: Simpsons characters, plants, disease symptoms, planets and moons, etc. Even if you stick with animals, you don't need to keep the same initial questions.

Grading:

Out of 10 points:

1.5 - Compiles.

0.5 - Coding Standards

Since you are working mostly with existing code, you are not required to document. However, you should still format your code properly.

2.0 - Robust Interface

Your applet does not crash or lock-up, even if the user hits the wrong button. You may want to disable certain buttons (such as Enter) when they are not usable.

1.0 - Understandable Interface

Your instructions to the user are intelligible to someone who has no idea what the assignment was.

1.0 - Correctly navigates the tree

Displays the correct questions as "yes" and "no" buttons are pressed.

1.0 - Resets cleanly

When you reach the end of a tree on a yes (that is, the computer correctly guesses the animal), the system starts over again at the top of the tree.

3.0 - Correctly adds new knowledge to the tree

When you reach the end of a tree on a no, the system gets user input and adds a new "animal (question)" and "distinction question" to the tree. Then resets cleanly.