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Java Projects

You're reading from   Java Projects Learn the fundamentals of Java 11 programming by building industry grade practical projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789131895
Length 524 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Peter Verhas Peter Verhas
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Java 11 FREE CHAPTER 2. The First Real Java Program - Sorting Names 3. Optimizing the Sort - Making Code Professional 4. Mastermind - Creating a Game 5. Extending the Game - Run Parallel, Run Faster 6. Making Our Game Professional - Do it as a Web App 7. Building a Commercial Web Application Using REST 8. Extending Our E-Commerce Application 9. Building an Accounting Application Using Reactive Programming 10. Finalizing Java Knowledge to a Professional Level 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

The model of the game

When we develop a piece of code with an OO mindset, we try to model the real world and map real-world objects to objects in the program. You certainly have heard object orientation explained with the very typical examples of geometric objects, or the car and the motor thing to explain composition. Personally, I believe that these examples are too simple to get a good understanding. They may be good for starters, but we are already in the fourth chapter of this book. The Mastermind game is much better. It is a bit more complex than just rectangles and triangles, but not as complex as a telecom billing application or an atomic power plant control.

What are the real-world objects that we have in this game? We have a table and we have pins of different colors. There are two Java classes that we certainly will need. What is in a table? There are rows each having...

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