My ten year old has learnt quite a lot of java and wants a few BEGINNER projects. Any ideas?
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Jump to PostI know this sounds antiquated, but I learned a lot by writing a text adventure game -- like a Scott Adams text adventure game back in the early 1980s.
Something like that would expand his knowledge of user interaction and could be great for learning code …
Jump to PostI know this sounds antiquated
why would this sound antiquated?
no matter in what century they were born, all Olympic medal sprinters learned to crawl, then walk.every one has to get to know the basics before going 'expert', so it's a good advice that 'll probably stay just …
Jump to PostI'd personally recommend a file/directory copy utility. This way, he'll get more acquainted with how the CLI clients work and get a taste of implementing a fun utility from scratch. The good thing is that this project can be beefed up if required by adding more options like the way …
Jump to PostJPanel myPanel = new JPanel();
onButtonPressed
myPanel = new JPanel();something like that? seems possible to me, never actually coded it myself, though.
Jump to PostI don't mean this in an unkind way, but zeroliken's reference is to a very simple example. You're not going to find anything easier.
But here (from memory, so maybe slight errors) is a very short crib sheet:
Create your Cards as ordinary JPanels with whatever content
Set the frame's …
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stultuske commented: 20th century babies learn to walk just the same way as the third century babies :) +14
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zeroliken commented: you make it sound like it's just a walk in the park ;) +8
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