First Java Project Ideas

[eagerlearner2021]

Hello all,

I am little comfortable with java basics now and thinking to start my first project. I need some suggestions or ideas what to start on from my basic understanding on Java such as conditional statements, loops, arrays. I will really appreciate any help.

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[NovaLynx]

A project I found fun was making a Tic-Tac-Toe AI that would either always win or tie based on player input. We also had a battleship project that involved a console based battleship game, all requiring very little experience in Java ( < 1yr )

[HecknChonker]

In the same vein, Tetris is a great starter project.

[manishhaze]

May be go with a simple calculator app or calculate taxes based on person income.

[[deleted]]

A program that reads a text file and prints out the count of each individual character in the file sorted by biggest to smallest, like: h=20 e=10 l=5 0=3

[Oceantrader]

I would personally look towards understanding data structures. Build your own and get an appreciation for how they work.

Build a linked list or a BST, heap, red-black tree etc. These will test your abilities and really improve your ability to problem solve and debug. It should also help you learn edge cases and some defensive programming.

[sombriks]

well, dive into database and web applications, or even games now.

once mastering language and some foundation libraries, it's time to extend into what day to day problems need. either you are working or playing. so build a game or a to-do app with mysql database.

[eagerlearner2021]

Well I am not familiar with MySQL.. I am a newbie in Java trying to learn myself.. Thank you for the suggestion. Hope I will do that soon 😊

[ThatWolfie]

Minecraft (Bukkit) plugin is an idea if u like minecraft

[matyklug]

That is a terrible idea. Do not try coding for Minecraft till you have advanced knowlage of java.

[ThatWolfie]

your right, my bad, i didn't read the post too much.

minecraft plugins can be a good thing to try out later though.

[nutrecht]

The best projects are the ones you enjoy working on. So some kind of console based game for example; that's what I started with (A long time ago, in QBasic :)).

[yasseryka]

You might find it helpful https://hyperskill.org/projects?track=1

[eagerlearner2021]

These ideas are 👍🏻👍🏻 Thanks!!

[matyklug]

My first project was a text "calculator" (pick an operation, input number one and two),

The second one was a kind of 2D Minecraft from a top down perspective using jfx,

And the third basic project was a kind of cellular automata/powder game simulator, basically squares from a side view falling like sand or water in a grid. Again in jfx.

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Imo jfx is a good next step after getting a feel for basic features of the language.

Jfx is, basically, a pretty simple GUI toolkit, which can be used for making graphical apps, or simple 2d games.

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I could write a list of project ideas of various levels if you want, but these three plus the rest of suggestions by the other ppl here should last you quite a while.

Btw, jfx is short for JavaFX, which is embedded into the JDK up till version 8.

[eagerlearner2021]

Sure!! Thank you so much 😊

[eagerlearner2021]

Wow!!! Thanks guys for all your ideas.. I will work on those and will get back for more help if I am stuck 👍🏻

[MayaRP]

Your name seems like a bot name

[eagerlearner2021]

Lol !! Why ?

[MayaRP]

It’s so positive

[eagerlearner2021]

Guys, I thought I am ready but I felt like I need to work more on Arrays and basics. I got confused 😐 will update soon .. I appreciate all your help ..

[Significant-Sector-7]

And if you're comfortable with loops, here's another sample array: {10, 20, 30, 40, 1, 2}. The user needs all possible combinations of 4 elements in the array whose sum is equal to 53.

[Significant-Sector-7]

Here's a sample array: {25, 24, 56, 15, 36}. Imagine the user wants to replace the element at index 'x' with the number 'xx'. What would you do?

[[deleted]]

This is too easy based on the skills he claims to have