Java Project Ideas

I have started java this year in school and as much as I hate to admit it am still a beginner... I know we have only scratched the surface of java but I am sick of the simple math projects and the simple "Guess a number" programs. We have covered basic display and input. Also random but that is pretty much it. Every assignment we do is basically the same but with the variables changing.

I am looking for any help to start any kind of simple game programming and other simple programs.

Any project ideas or links to Java help will be appreciated.


Also what is the best kind of programming to get started on simple game programs???

Thanks,
SGW

 

Well not sure how simple your projects have been thus far but try writing tic-tac-toe, if you can do that program battleship. These are fairly simple. Once you get the games working you can write computer players. If you can successfully write battleship with a decent A.I. then you should be able to start scaling up to more complex games.

 

I was gonna start Tic tac toe but we havn't learnt how to display it like that. Thanks for the help though

 

Do it without graphics, just use ASCII, like this:

x | x | o
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o | x | x
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o | o | x

you can do the same with battleship