reflectionDocument.txt

1.)Names: Cesar Acosta and Chen Chen
2.)Class: CSCI 1302
3.)Cesar Acosta's ID: 810-359-2250
   Chen Chen's ID: 810-304-9140
4.)Date: 4/8/14

REFLECTION DOCUMENT:
	Througout the coding of this project, we made several adjustments to 
accomodate the programs functionality that we couldn't have predicted at the
beginning. We began to conceptualize the concept of Tic Tac Toe and Tetris first
and we broke it down into digestable chunks, chunks that aren't too overwhelming
at first and that could be pieced together once we completely grasped the concept.
Both projects were broken up into stages and the benefit of the GUI is that we 
were clearly able to view these changes as we progressed.
	For Tic Tac Toe, we created an inner class called Cell and
we created 3x3 cells to use as the board in the outer class. To represent 
each player we used the symbol X and O. We used an integers (1 and 2) to 
indicate whose turn it is. Most Listener were added to each individual cell.
Once the mouse is pressed, we draw either an X or an O. To decide who wins,
we iterate the gameboard to check if the player wins vertically, horizontally,
or diagonally respectively. Two integers were used to track the score for each
player. For the undo button, we used a stack to record each move and in the undo
method the stack was used to "pop" the player's last move. The undo method is called
by the button's Action Listener and Control-Z Key Listener.
	For Tetris, in the Single Piece class, we called the shape of each piece
its "status". Each piece is represented by a 4x4 grid. We store each status of
each shape in a 3-dimensional array as a constant. This is so that we can store
all the shapes as an indexed value in the array. In the Piece Generator class,
we randomly created 200 single pieces and stored them in a queue. We "dequeued"
this queue to bring out each new piece to the board. We designed the board as a
10x20 grid, in the same way as the pieces (with 0's and 1's). We used the constant
9 to represent the wall. We defined all the methods for the moves as "rotate", "left",
"right", and "down". The timer periodically calls "down" with a 1 second interval.
We finally designed the method to clear the board once a row has been completely filled
and it will update the score.
	We used a Card Layout as the main panel to choose between games. We used buttons to 
control options for tetris.