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By now, you should feel pretty comfortable with the steps involved in building a Java project.  In this last chapter, we give you more projects you can build and try.

  We’ll present the steps involved in building each project - Project Design, Project Development, Run the Project, and Other Things to Try.  But, we won’t give you detailed discussion of what’s going on in the code (we will point out new ideas).  You should be able to figure that out by now (with the help of the code comments).  Actually, a very valuable programming skill to have is the ability to read and understand someone else’s code.

The five new projects included are:  Computer Stopwatch, Dice Rolling, State Capitals, Tic-Tac-Toe, and Memory Game.  The first three projects will be console applications.  Tic-Tac-Toe and Memory Game will use a GUI interface. And, as a bonus, we’ll throw in a Java version of the first video game ever – Pong!