Tell31's Java adventure!

Beginning today I'm taking a class that introduces java to teens and gets them started with it. Its been lots of fun and I'll be doing it all week long!

I can thank all of you (mostly) for inspiring me to do this.

DAY 1
What i'v done so far is make a program (using Oracle) that displays the first ten numbers of the fibonacci sequence

Spoiler:

Have fun! once you do that, try looking at this

It's how I learned/am learning java, it gets pretty in depth.


is it going to get into Object Oriented Programming?

although why do you thank us for the Fibonacci sequence?

I got mine to say Type any number and then it displays that meny numbers of the Fibonacci sequence. Its totaly better (Me and him are in the same class)

Cool. Maybe we should all do Ludem Jam.

Keon wrote:

Cool. Maybe we should all do Ludem Jam.

Is that a joke?

No. If we all get good at java, we should all make games for our own competition. Maybe not Ludem Dare, but still.

So right now I just got back from brake at the camp and I just meght some one who joined minecraft at Indev! and we worked on GUI's to day

I'm already working on a game of my own


Yes, I actually know what I'm going to do and how.

tell wrote:

I got mine to say Type any number and then it displays that meny numbers of the Fibonacci sequence. Its totaly better (HE(I think?) and I are in the same class)

Congratulations, are you getting/going to get into Object Oriented stuff?

tell wrote:

So right now I just got back from brake at the camp and I just meght some one who joined minecraft at Indev! and we worked on GUI's to day

Um, worng. All we did (at least what I did) was wait for people to finish de-bugging their code, and get COMPLETELY turned around by functions that use exponent in a equation. And now because of said confusion, I hate "For loops".

Ya, I had fun.

But for loops are your greatest ally.

fr0stbyte124 wrote:

But for loops are your greatest ally.

NAY! While loops are indeed holier than your foul for loops.

Keon wrote:

fr0stbyte124 wrote:

But for loops are your greatest ally.

NAY! While loops are indeed holier than your foul for loops.

The most superior loop there is could only be the fabled Loop-hole!

Yeah! Ownage!

Mackeroth? wrote:

Keon wrote:

fr0stbyte124 wrote:

But for loops are your greatest ally.

NAY! While loops are indeed holier than your foul for loops.

The most superior loop there is could only be the fabled Loop-hole!

Yeah! Ownage!

...I don't think you know what they're talking about...


for is the best loop, for an infinite loops it's just for(;; ) versus while(true) and instead of:

int n;
while(n < 10){
n++
//code here
}

you can just put(I think I have the order wrong here):

for(int n = 0; n <10; n++){
//code here
}

So today we started working on our final projects for the week (today's Wednesday) and I'm doing a variation of asteroids. So far I have the spaceship done now I'm working on doing the asteroids coming down in a random order then I have to work on the lives and the asteroid exploding as the ship hits it.

You're writing Asteroids in an intro java course? Does it have graphics, or are you doing it in ascii?

Dayman wrote:

Mackeroth? wrote:

Keon wrote:

fr0stbyte124 wrote:

But for loops are your greatest ally.

NAY! While loops are indeed holier than your foul for loops.

The most superior loop there is could only be the fabled Loop-hole!

Yeah! Ownage!

...I don't think you know what they're talking about...


for is the best loop, for an infinite loops it's just for(;; ) versus while(true) and instead of:

int n;
while(n < 10){
n++
//code here
}

you can just put(I think I have the order wrong here):

for(int n = 0; n <10; n++){
//code here
}

In Python, if I needed an infinite loop I just went:

Code:

while 1>0:
#code here

Why is there no indent button?

Mackeroth? wrote:

Dayman wrote:

Mackeroth? wrote:

Keon wrote:

fr0stbyte124 wrote:

But for loops are your greatest ally.

NAY! While loops are indeed holier than your foul for loops.

The most superior loop there is could only be the fabled Loop-hole!

Yeah! Ownage!

...I don't think you know what they're talking about...


for is the best loop, for an infinite loops it's just for(;; ) versus while(true) and instead of:

int n;
while(n < 10){
n++
//code here
}

you can just put(I think I have the order wrong here):

for(int n = 0; n <10; n++){
//code here
}

In Python, if I needed an infinite loop I just went:

Code:

while 1>0:
#code here

Why is there no indent button?

That's what I would like to know.

and it's (I think) slightly less taxing on the system to put while(true) or for(; instead of 1>0, because the system doesn't have to do as many evaluations or something.

although In python I doubt that matters.

While is better, for is just a while loop with iterators. While can do so much more.

OH MY GOSH WHILE STOPPED SOUNDING LIKE A WORD. I mean, while. Just say it. While, while, while.

fr0stbyte124 wrote:

You're writing Asteroids in an intro java course? Does it have graphics, or are you doing it in ascii?

Um

1) Yes

2) I'm doing graphics and I'm also using the StdDraw.java class to help me

One last thing is that this is a varyation to the Asteroids game. In my verson the astroids come at you and you have to doge them.

tell wrote:

fr0stbyte124 wrote:

You're writing Asteroids in an intro java course? Does it have graphics, or are you doing it in ascii?

Um

1) Yes

2) I'm doing graphics and I'm also using the StdDraw.java class to help me

One last thing is that this is a varyation to the Asteroids game. In my verson the astroids come at you and you have to doge them.

You can't shoot!?

.....woh,


Anyway as my brother said, everyone in the class started their independent projects today.

I'v decided on making "Tell-tac-toe" for mine. Its coming along nicely with the playing grid completed, and the ability to place X or O on the screen via clicking.

The biggest problem at the moment is that it randomly choses which marker to insert on the screen; for example "X" could go 3 times in a row, then once for "Y", then it places "X" again.

It also doesn't tell you if someone won (getting 3 in a row; I would hope you all know this rule though).





I'll post the code for it tomorrow for critiquing, its on the Camp's computers at the moment

My code:

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^"%:#" SPaceship go pew pew pew #@Kapow!#@$@$ Boom shew shew pew.

[Sound] "Were going down" NOpe I haz da loops

@$#
1

"froot loops?"#%

##$#

End now plzzzzzzzzzzzz

FROST LOOPS - the most intelligent cereal EVER!!!!?

Make NIM , and make an impossible AI for it and nobody will want to play it with you because it is so simple.

Dayman wrote:

Mackeroth? wrote:

Dayman wrote:

Mackeroth? wrote:

Keon wrote:

fr0stbyte124 wrote:

But for loops are your greatest ally.

NAY! While loops are indeed holier than your foul for loops.

The most superior loop there is could only be the fabled Loop-hole!

Yeah! Ownage!

...I don't think you know what they're talking about...


for is the best loop, for an infinite loops it's just for(;; ) versus while(true) and instead of:

int n;
while(n < 10){
n++
//code here
}

you can just put(I think I have the order wrong here):

for(int n = 0; n <10; n++){
//code here
}

In Python, if I needed an infinite loop I just went:

Code:

while 1>0:
#code here

Why is there no indent button?

That's what I would like to know.

and it's (I think) slightly less taxing on the system to put while(true) or for(; instead of 1>0, because the system doesn't have to do as many evaluations or something.

although In python I doubt that matters.

Most high level languages will do basic optimization on your code, e.g. unrolling loops, tweaking variable scope, and so forth. Pretty much there's not going to be a difference between various ways of saying "repeat forever" or for vs while, so don't stress over it. There is a difference in C++, though.

hyperlite wrote:

Make NIM , and make an impossible AI for it and nobody will want to play it with you because it is so simple.

Bonus points for using a graph search AI instead of hard coding the strategy.