What did I learn about Java by doing this project?
 

1. I learned how to create an object, ballObject, that my program was able to use to create 3 different instances (red, green and blue) that not only started in different locations, but also had different angles of movement and speed.  I did this by passing information from myCanvas to the ballObject.
2. I was able to create buttons and place them on a panel.
3. I learned when it is important to define a new string, integer, image, etc within a method or for the entire class.
4. I learned how to use the Sun documentation to figure out what someone elses code is actually doing.  Once I understood the code I was often able to use parts of it to suppliment my own, or get ideas for ways to do things.

It felt like I learned a lot more then this.  I think I should get a passing grade because I worked really hard and I learned a lot.  I did fail to get the stop and go buttons to work, though I'm not sure why it did not work. Through my failed efforts to create a sliding puzzle, I learned how to use a constructor to pass information from one object, Knot.java, to the other object, oneCanvas.java to form a whole picture made out of 9 individual images.