Java Card Game

[ickyrr]

Hey guys, i want to create a card game in java. The game is called Tong-its.,i'm having a really hard time doing it.where do i start?Im wondering if i would use applet or jframe.

[stultuske]

JFrame or applet: do you want to write it for a browser, or a desktop application?

the rest: check what the game 'does' what rules it has. I assume you'll have a number of CARDS, so write a Card class, give it a type (spade, diamonds, ...) and a value (1 -> 10 || jack || queen || king )

then ... well, I have no idea what the game is supposed to do, so .. happy coding.

[ickyrr]

i want to write a desktop application..
then how do i get o manipulate the image?

[dantinkakkar]

These links are what you need, I guess:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/index.html (Swing)
http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/index.html (JavaFX)
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/2d/index.html (Image Manipulation)

Hope this helps! :)

[JamesCherrill]

If you want this to be a learning exercise that builds long-term Java skills then starting with the details of parts of the GUI is leading you down a bad path. You'll end up with mess of spaghetti where the logic of the game is buried in multiple action listeners and nobody will understand it.
stultuske had good advice - start with his Card class, then build a Game class that contains the rules and has public methods for whatever decisions the game requires, and lets you query the results/current situation etc. Test and debug this by hard coding some plays and printing the results.
Then build a GUI that accesses an instance of Game and calls its methods to make moves, get the results etc.
For more detail on why this is a good approach, Google "Model, View, Controller" or MVC.