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[Java] Hangman Lab

I'm currently working on a Java Hangman Lab for the introductory CS class I enrolled in.

I have 2 class files and right now I'm trying to get it to work, but I'm really confused. If anyone could help, I would be very grateful.

http://members.cox.net/al9045/Hangman.java
http://members.cox.net/al9045/TestHangman.java

Thanks.

well first, I am simply just a beginner at Java and I thought I would do my best to look at it and give my 2 cents, second, I think you have to be a little more specific on what you need help with. You cant really just come in and say Im confused, you kind of need to say, Hey, I need help with this and this yada yada yada.

My apologies.

Currently I have the program set up for you to enter 10 words and then it will randomly choose one of the words for you to guess. After that I really have no idea what to do, so this is what I tried

System.out.print("\n\nPlease guess a letter: ");
String letter = TextIO.getln();
if(letter == theWord.substring(theWord.length()))
System.out.println(theWord.substring(g));

Right now I'm trying to get it, so when you guess a correct letter it will print out the letter in the word like this.

Suppose the word is Dog and I guessed "O".

-O-

And so on.

For one thing, you should use the equals( Object anObject ) or the equalsIgnoreCase( String aString ) methods in the String class if you're comparing Strings because == only works for primitives. I'm not sure what you're trying to do with the substring method, it seems to me that using the toCharArray() method in the String class and a loop would be helpful, though.

System.out.print("\n\nPlease guess a letter: ");
String letter = TextIO.getln();

I would suggest you create another variable that is character type:

-char l = letter.charAt(0);

if(letter == theWord.substring(theWord.length()))

The part "theWord.substring(theWord.length())" is going to be null since what you're doing is basically grabbing the substring of a word between the end and...well, the end. (Read the API on the String class) I'd use a for loop to search through a word instead.

Maybe this will help. It's not exactly what you are looking to do, but its a hangman program I had to make for a CS course.

Code:

 

/*Matt Lewis

Hangman*/



import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

import java.util.Arrays;

public class Hangman

{

        public static void main(String [] args)

        {

                String word = "phloem", let="s", dashii="------", whaddyawant, guess="";

                int x=0, y=0, c=0;

                

                char[] dashes = dashii.toCharArray();

                char[] cheque = word.toCharArray();

                

                System.out.println("HANGMAN!\n");

                do{

                        whaddyawant=JOptionPane.showInputDialog("word or letter?");

                        if (whaddyawant.equalsIgnoreCase("word"))

                                {guess=JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Gues your word.");

                                if (guess.equalsIgnoreCase(word))

                                        System.out.println("phloem\nYou got it!");}

                                else {

                c=0;

                x=0;

                y++;

                

                String inpt=JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter a letter.");

                        

                        do{

                        if (inpt.charAt(0)==word.charAt(x))

                        {        

                                dashes[x]=inpt.charAt(0);

                                c++;

                        }

                        x++;

                        }while((inpt.charAt(0)!=word.charAt(x-1))&&(x!=6));

                        

                for (int z=0; z<6; z++)

                {System.out.print(dashes[z]);}

                System.out.println();

                                }

                }while((y<10)&&(!Arrays.equals(dashes, cheque))&&(!guess.equalsIgnoreCase(word)));

                

                System.exit(0);

        }

}