CIT 597 Assignment 7: Ruby/Shoes

Purposes of this assignment

• To get you at least somewhat familiar with Ruby.
• To get you started with Shoes.
• To make sure you can do unit testing in Ruby.

General idea of the assignment

Write an interesting program in Ruby, using Shoes as a GUI. (Note: "Hello World" isn't interesting.) Do some (at least a little) unit testing.

Details

Ruby was designed to be fun to program in, and I think Matz succeeded. Shoes is also a lot of fun.

I learned, back in high school English literature class, that nothing you are assigned to read is ever enjoyable. I'd like this assignment to be enjoyable. So, while I feel I need to assign something in Ruby, I want to keep it as open-ended as possible.

If you don't have any ideas about what to write, play around with the sample programs until you do.

What you need

http://shoes.heroku.com/
http://shoes.heroku.com/downloads

Grading:

• Does the program run?
• Did you do some unit testing?
• Does it look like you put enough effort into the program to have actually learned some Ruby?

Due date:

Midnight Tuesday, November 24 Sunday, November 29. Submit your assignment via Blackboard.