A202/A598 Introduction to Programming II (4/3 cr.)

Fall Semester 2005

Lab Seven: One dimensional arrays and JComboBoxes

The assignment for today's lab will consist of only one problem:

A geography teacher would like to quiz students on their knowledge of the flags of various countries. The teacher has asked you to write an application that displays a flag and allows the student to select the corresponding country name from a list. The application should inform the user whether the answer is correct and display the next flag. The application should display five flags randomly chosen from the flags of Australia, Brazil, China, Italy, Russia, South Africa, Spain and the United States. When the application is executed, a given flag should be displayed only once.

Here's the completed application, so you can test-drive it: labSeven.jar

Remember, you have to develop it from scratch, the code provided is meant to clarify the requirements.

Download the contents of the link to your desktop, then run the program as follows from the command line:

java -classpath labSeven.jar FlagQuiz

Here's the way the application will look when you run it.

Your task is to provide an implementation that works exactly as the one you're test driving.

Remember, you have to develop it from scratch, the code provided is meant to clarify the requirements.

And now here are the notes:

First you need to keep these images around.
Next you need to start from our usual, basic starting point.
We then add most of the necessary GUI (first serious step).
Then a minor change initializes the flag. We can start playing.
So the next step takes the user's input and reports it.
The fifth step basically wraps it up. The rest is obvious.

Last updated on Aug 29, 2005, by Adrian German for A202/A598 and I211