CS 2500 Lab 4: Structures and Unions

New lab partners, new friends

It is time to switch lab partners! You may not work with a partner with whom you have previously worked this semester. Choose someone you haven't already worked with and relocate so that the two of you are sharing a single workstation. Sharing is caring, and also the key to good pair programming.

Switching pilot and co-pilot

In previous labs you were switching pair-programming roles in-between exercises. In this lab and in future labs, you will switch roles at regular intervals throughout the lab. The teaching assistants and tutors will announce that it is time to switch roughly every fifteen minutes.

Don't delete as you go

In previous labs some students deleted their solutions for exercises after completing them—don't do this! It is common for later exercises to make use of functions and templates introduced in earlier ones.

DR uber alles

Remember to practice using the design recipe when designing programs!

Develop means Design Recipe

Use it, love it.

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I. Last week on CS 2500

1. In this class, each lab section consists of a section number (1–7), a head TA, and a supporting TA. Design a data definition and define a data structure for representing lab sections. Give three examples of lab sections. (The course website has a table of all the lab sections and lists the names of all the TA's.)

   Develop a program that consumes a lab section and returns a descriptive string similar to "CS 2501 Section 3: George Washington, John Adams".

1. Develop a function that computes the result of the formula (a+b)²/(a-b)². Give an example that uses the function. For your example, (1) write out the steps to evaluate it as comments in the definitions window, and then (2) use the stepper to compare how you evaluated the formula with how DrRacket evaluated the formula. Unless you have made a mistake, both sets of steps of the formula should give the same vaule.

II. This week on CS 2500 – Structures and unions

Hint: in the following exercises give names to your examples so you can use them again later.

1. A rock band has a name and consists of a singer, a guitarist, a bassist, and a drummer. A jazz band has a name and consists of a trumpeter, a bassist, and a drummer. A pop band has a name and consists of a singer and a two synthesizer players. A band is either a rock band or a jazz band or a pop band. Write one data definition for each kind of band and then write a data definition for a band in general. Produce three examples of a band (one for each kind). Write a template for a function that consumes a band.

1. Design a function that consumes a band and a name and returns true if the name matches the name of the band and false otherwise.

1. Design a function that consumes a band and a drummer. If the band is a rock band it returns a rock band which is the same as the old one, but with the drummer replaced by the one given as input to the function. If the band is not a rock band it returns it unchanged.

III. World with structures

In the following exercises, represent the world as a struct with two posns. The first posn represents the current position of a blue circle, and the second posn represents the current position of a red circle. When the user clicks the mouse the red circle will immediately move to where they clicked, and over time the blue circle will move to meet it.

1. Design a function mouse-handler to react to mouse events. It consumes four inputs: a World, an x coordinate, a y coordinate, and a MouseEvent as described in MouseEvent. When the MouseEvent is "button-down" the function mouse-handler should create a World where the first posn is the same as the given World's first posn and the second posn is the position of the mouse click. On any other mouse event ("button-up", "drag", "move", "enter", or "leave") the function mouse-handler should return the given World unchanged.

1. Design a function tick-tock to react to clock events. The purpose of the function is to gradually equate two posns as the clock progresses. The function consumes a World and produces a new World where both coordinates x and y of the first posn are increased or decreased by 1 (or 0) so that they approach the coordinates of the second posn.

   For example, if the input World is ((1,3), (5,1)) then tick-tock should return the new World ((2,2), (5,1)).

1. Design a function world-draw that consumes a World and returns a 300 × 300 scene with a solid blue circle of radius 15 at the position represented by the first posn and a solid red circle of radius 10 at the position represented by the second posn. When they overlap, the red circle should appear on top of the blue circle.

1. Use big-bang and the three functions you wrote to create an animation where you click to place a red circle somewhere in the canvas and then a blue circle moves along the canvas trying to reach the red circle. The initial position of the blue circle is determined by how you choose to initialize the World. You'll need on-mouse, on-tick, and to-draw.

1. Extend the definition of the world to include a String that is one of "red", "yellow", or "green". Modify world-draw to use this String to determine the color of the circle we draw when the user clicks. Also write a function cycle-color to cycle through the colors: "red" → "yellow" → "green" → "red". Using this function, modify mouse-click to cycle the color when the user clicks.

That's All Folks

If you had trouble finishing any of the exercises in the lab or homework—or just feel like you're struggling with any of the material—come to office hours to talk to a TA or a tutor for extra help.