Have students create a game of Tetris in Java to work on object-oriented programming and decomposing complex programs.

Students create and test Piece and Board classes separately to build the Tetris game.
- To make this project more challenging, students can also create a Brain class, which allows the computer to use AI to play the game itself or sabotage the player by choosing inconvenient Tetris pieces.
For helpful files and more instructions, check out the Stanford Tetris Project.

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