CS 308 - Team 7 SLogo
Team: Zhen Gou, Will Nance, Jay Wang, David Winegar
UTA: Brandon Millman

Started: Feb 23, 2013
Finished: Mar 25, 2013
Hours worked: ~100 hours

Link to Github Repo

MORE TO BE DISCUSSED IN PROJECT ANALYSIS

Zhen Gou and David Winegar: View, Model, and Util We worked mostly on the parts that deal with the state of the model and the view.

Jay Wang and Will Nance: Factory and Commands
Early on, the majority of our time was spent on figuring out how we were going to handle process commands. Ultimately, we built out a framework using the Parser, an Initializer (AbstractInitializer + Specific_Initializer), and a Command.

• Javadoc
• CS website resources
• For writing/loading to a text file

Files were taken from the previous Springies project, including much of the Util such as Sprite, Location, Pixmap, Vector; code was also taken from the Canvas class and is contained in both the View and the current Canvas class.

• Requires an English.properties file with the proper language for View to function correctly
• Requires an Initializers.properties file, which the Parser uses to grab the appropriate Initializer.
• Requires a picture to represent the turtle

• When using Save/Load FunctionsAndVariables, please save your file in the src/file directory. It is the same directory that has the session.txt file.

Bugs: * set background image cause null-pointer exception for some files but not others

Not implemented functionality: * allow user to set image for turtle; we imagine it will be very similar to set background image * background images and colors are still problematic as not all commands are working correctly - we implemented it purely view side and there is a mostly complete model side implementation that is not connected. * pen cannot choose to make dashed lines; not hard but we chose to work more on refactoring with our time * let user acess a html page for help * undo/do actions * show variables/functions defined by users ** GUI has windows for them but isn't functional yet

Enhanced GUI, lets the user choose background color/toggle highlight for turtle/set background image/ toggle reference grid by clicking buttons in GUI without need to type commands

We felt that this project was both challenging and rewarding. From the Command side, we wish that maybe one day could have been devoted to interpreter design. Our TA helped us a bit with planning out how to design the Parser, but for the most part, we struggled heavily with that in the beginning. We also felt like there was a large mismatch between the amount of work each team had to do during each part of the project - the command side had vastly more work during part 2 and the model side had much more during part 3.