SI 413 Fall 2021 / Project


This is the archived website of SI 413 from the Fall 2021 semester. Feel free to browse around; you may also find more recent offerings at my teaching page.

C#

C# is a sort-of extension of C and C++ that was designed by Microsoft as part of its .NET framework. It is designed to be "multi-paradigm", meaning you can do functional, or object-oriented, or procedural, or whatever other kind of programming style you want in the language. (But for this project, we'll be mostly sticking with object-oriented.)

Useful Links

Tools

We will use Microsoft's .NET sdk, which runs on Linux, Mac or Windows. For this class, your programs need to run on Linux.

Specifically, we will use the .NET Core SDK version 3.1.

The dotnet program is alreadly installed on the lab machines.

To install on your linux VM or in WSL, follow Microsoft's instructions here.

How to start programming

If you are working in the Linux console, run these commands to create a new folder called "proj1" containing a project file proj1.csproj and the actual source code in Program.cs:

dotnet new console --output proj1
cd proj1
dotnet new gitignore

You can also do something similar if you are using Visual Studio / VSCode by creating a new C# console project.

Either way, you should have a project file called something like proj1.csproj and all of your source code will go into Program.cs.

All of your C# code should be in that single .cs file Program.cs. It's okay to have multiple classes, but they should all go into that single source code file that you will submit.

How I will run your code

You will submit your proj1.csproj and Program.cs files. Then I will simply run (in the directory containing these files):

dotnet run
to compile and run your code.

Even if you write your program using an IDE such as VSCode, remember that I will run your code as described above, so make sure you test that it works that way from the command line!

Phase 1 Requirements

For this language, you need to implement modifications B, C, D, F, G, H, and I. See the Phase 1 page for details on what this means.

Phase 2

See the Phase 2 Page for the list of suggested problems. Of the ones listed, I recommend the following as being most well-suited for C#:

  1. Make (It should involve some graphical indicator of what files are being remade as it happens.)
  2. Image Creator
  3. Hangman (You would have to make it nice and fancy.)
  4. TODO list
  5. Vending Machine
  6. Game with hidden agenda
  7. Sports Ticker
  8. Rock, Paper, Scissors
  9. Music Maker
  10. ??? (you choose!)