Challenge: Five Winners, and the new Challenge: Holiday
Posted by: Josh Marinacci on: November 10, 2009
The Winner: Video Poker
We had four high quality entries for this month’s challenge. The race was tight, but now we have a winner: Matthew Hegarty’s Video Poker. I simply can’t believe it was done in only 3000 characters.
Video Poker, Matthew Hegarty (click to run)
New Challenge: Holiday
The theme for the next challenge is holiday. It can be anything you want: Christmas, Hanukkah, snow, vacation, etc. Since we are coming up to the end of the year and vacations I thought I’d give you all a bit more time. The challenge starts now and ends December 15th, with the winners posted by the 20th.
Same rules as before: 30 lines or 3000 characters (not counting imports and comments). Mail your entry to joshua.marinacci@sun.com with the subject line JFXStudio Challenge: Holiday by the end of November.
Here are the rest of the Challenge:Five entries. I particularly like the dodecahedron in a shaped window. Click on any of the screenshots to try out the app.
Mayan Base-5 Calculator, Mark Nankman
Dodecahedron, Sergey Malenkov
Prayer Clock, Muhammad Hakim
7 Responses to "Challenge: Five Winners, and the new Challenge: Holiday"
Yes, images are fine. As are MP3s, videos, fonts, or any other non-code resource. But your code must be 30 lines or 3000 chars.
Very pleased to see my game won this month’s challenge, despite some excellent entries.
I almost didn’t submit because I thought the Poker theme was too obvious (it was even suggested by the Java Posse). I pressed on though, and I’m pleased I stuck with it.
I had to work hard to squeak it under 3,000 characters, and this resulted in some very nasty hacks (great fun though!). The code is so horrendously unreadable that I struggle to make sense of it myself now. I’m going to try and clean it up a bit and post it back here for anyone who is interested.
this is very nice.
It looks very nice. The load time is very slow. Is there any plan to make javafx as easy to use as flash application for the end user?
there’s always a way on finding hacker account
Is it possible to look through the winner’s sources?
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- Ricky Chen: Hello surikov, I am quite interested in the source code of this project, I believe it will help me lot in my JavaFX study. Could you pls send me the s
- David: crudfx library is very good, but poor documentation so hard for me to use it. or somewhere on the Internet are available sources of this "text edit
- surikov: use any components from CRUDfx SDK. They support file dragging. Look to the code if you want to know how it works.
1 | Sergey Malenkov
November 10, 2009 at 10:12 am
Is it possible to use images? I think it was declared as a coding challenge:
http://jfxstudio.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/coding-challenge-five/