by Editorial | Aug 31, 2025 | Grade 11, Grade 11 - GUI, Grade 12, Grade 12 - PAT
In your practical Java coding projects attention must be given to GUI design. This is not only important for appearance but because a badly designed interface is prone to user errors. Appearance – Colour. Your GUIs should have a primary colour, a secondary...
by Editorial | Nov 28, 2022 | Grade 10, Grade 10 - GUI, Grade 11, Grade 11 - GUI, Grade 12, Grade 12 - PAT
Many learners have the problem of missing images from their Java JFrameForms when they move their PAT projects from one computer to another. The reason for this is that the path to the image has been hard coded (see examples below) In lines 81, 82 and 91 the...
by Editorial | Oct 11, 2022 | Grade 11, Grade 11 - GUI, Grade 11 - OOP, Grade 12, Grade 12 - OOP
And the passing of parameters. Here is the same app using GUIs coded in two different ways – the first has no OOP programming while the second does. The first is a one-class program. The second is a two-class program. In your grade 12 PAT project you have to use...
by Editorial | Aug 7, 2022 | Grade 10, Grade 10 - GUI, Grade 11, Grade 11 - GUI, Grade 12 - PAT
Teacher’s Calculator Learning how to create GUIs in Java takes your coding to the next level and empowers you to start your Grade 12 PAT project. Up to this point your coding has had to run sequentially from top to bottom without user interventions. The big...
by Editorial | Sep 18, 2021 | Grade 11 - GUI, Grade 12, Grade 12 - Cheat Sheets, Grade 12 - PAT
When coding your Java GUIs in JFrameForm you will need the same lines of code over and over again. Because GUIs are only in the PAT, you do not have to memorize structure or syntax; you can just use a cheatsheet to remind you how to structure each line of code. Here...
by Editorial | Sep 2, 2021 | Grade 11, Grade 11 - GUI, Grade 11 - Text Files, Grade 12 - PAT
The weather station project – Grade 11 This Java project is similar to the grade 10 project but a much higher level of sophistication is required – in how the four text files are read in for example. The grade 11 version uses 4 arrays which the grade 10...
