Atomic RhubarbA Random Assortment Of Curious Things

Updated: October 2, 2008. Changes in red.

For your final project you will develop a fully functional J2ME application. It can be a game or a business application of your choice. Your project will need to run in the SUN wireless toolkit 2.5.2 emulator at a minimum. You can also run it on a real device if you choose. (I will consider exceptions if you need features of a real device that are not supported by the emulator, such as games that use the handsets accelerometer). You will be expected to demonstrate your application to the class on week 14 (the last week).

Here is what is required for your project:

• Pick an application (you can discuss your ideas with me if you would like).
• Write a proposal (I will have a template for this on the files page soon). Send me email telling me what you want to do and detailed the featires you will implement.
• Send me your proposal by October 6th
• Work on your project. Your application should include any help or instructions needed so that the user does not need to refer to a manual.
• Send me an email status report by November 3rd (just an email telling me what sort of problems you have found and what you have accomplished).
• Give an in-class demonstration on December 8th (that's the last class).
• Complete a Final report that details what you did for your application (include and problems you encountered, how you resolved them, anything clever you found, describe any reusable classes you wrote, stuff like that).
• Give me 2 things for a summary: an screen capture that you think shows the best of your application, and a few sentences that summarize what you application does.
• Send me a ZIP file of everything (project tree, report, summary test and summary screen capture) by December 15th.

Some possible ideas

• DC Metro guide
• Scientific calculator (with bin-hex-decimal conversions of course)
• Engineering equation solver
• Adventure game
• An ebook reader

Places to look for project ideas

• textually.org
• Hinkmon Wong's Weblog
• GetJar.com
• Gameloft
• Google Codesearch (on J2ME)
• More as I think of them
• If you know of a good site let me know

 2008 Projects

Cantrell	Gluecose Monitor - The Glucose Meter application tracks glucose readings, insulin amounts and events and provides trend graphs and data summaries that assist with the management of diabetes.
Chan	Gas Mileage Tracker
Chen	Bluetooth Game - BlueGamer provides two different modes to players. Player can play the game on the local device to get as high score as possible in the limited time. Also player can host a game to allow other player join the game or join a game via Bluetooth.
Mackie-Jones	Zelda-like RPG - Zeta is a sandbox game of exploring and interacting with your environment.  Move the avatar around a 2d-world, travelling between persistant zones in which you can use an inventory of items to burn or freeze bushes, stick arrows in walls, light and extinguish braziers, freeze lakes to make them traversable, and more.  Be sure to bomb the boulders!
Pawlowski	Solataire Game - A traditional solitaire game for my final project. The game allows the player to view high scores, get help, and play the actual game. The player is also able to change the background theme while playing the game. The traditional rules of solitaire were followed when creating the game.
Pendzick	Music Player - Modified a final project created in my CSCI 253 of a Music Player controlled from a web interface, to provide the same functionality to a Cell phone via the JSR-172 specifications and specifically using the Java.Rmi.Remote interface and other supporting packages.
C Smith	MegaMan-like side scroller game - A simplified version of Mega Man using J2ME.
J Smith	2D game - MazeEscape!!! is a 2D game that allows the player to move through different mazes within a time limit. The player uses the arrow key to move through the mazes. There is a wave file that plays in the background while the player is playing the game. If the game is over then the game over music plays for about four seconds. The player scores points by completing a maze. Each maze is worth 1 point.
Sweeney	Bejeweled-like game - I decided to implement a simple version of the game Bejeweld. The object of this game is to get three or more of the same kind of jewels in a row: vertically or horizontally aligned. A player can only move a jewel one position to the right, left, up, or down. This move can only be preformed if it will align three or more jewels. The matching jewels will be removed and all jewels above will fall to replace the them. New jewels will fall to replace the rest of the game board. This cycle will continue until the player is unable to make it to the next level.