Foo - Anyone here Good at Java Programming?

I am a novice at Java and I am taking a class on it right now, it was steady and easy in the beginning and now its getting tough.Anyone here can give me some help? I am not looking for answers to programs, I am just looking for some help on the logic, because I dont have experiance at it, I am very weak at understanding things. I do however understand logic building, methods, arrays,variables. I have taken PHP, TOO.

I have quite a few years working in Java. I imagine there are a few others here as well.

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I have quite a few years working in Java. I imagine there are a few others here as well.

Shoot...

THanks pal this means the world for me,

so as far as logic is concerned, I am building a Java Game, its basically a grid of 64 squares that resemble cards, in each grid there lies 1 of 4 shapes, circle,square,triangle,hexagon.

I have most of the code done for it, all I need to do is adjust 1 thing.

That is, the population of the random shapes.

currently my code works by first creating a two dimensional array that take int values, and I made a method that populates it like the following.
private Random random = new Random();
private int[][] randShape = new int [8][8];

for(int row = 0; row < 8 ; row++){
for(int col = 0; col < 8 ; col++){
randShape[row][col] = random.nextInt(4) +1;
**
**


yep that works for my code and how I was instructed to populate it, this weeks assignment has other thing and adds what I am working on right now.

this weeks requirement is now to change the way I populate my 2D array of random numbers (shapes)

now I have have a even number of shapes (1s,2s,3s,4s) in my 2D Array.

clearly the way I populated my 2D array in the past (see above) didn't keep track of even number of shapes.(numbers)


So that is what I have to do, I got some good logic up just need the game ender(the last part)

so what I did to have even number of shapes(1,2,3,4)

I made 2, 1D arrays named arrayA and arrayB both of size 32 or private int[] arrayA = int [32] , private int[] arrayB = int [32]


I run a for loop to populate the arrayA with same logic as above except on a 1D array, (nextInt(4)+1)
after that in the same loop I also insert arrayA[counter] into arrayB[counter]
ex. arrayB[x] = arrayA[x];

that means in a for loop create a random number from 1-4 take that random value that now is in array[x] and put that into arrayB[x], so basically copying the value to a 2nd array, and which also means I have a even value of the same number.

now that that done, I did another thing which I called "shuffling" the 2nd array, arrayB so that it isn't static. the way I did it, is complicated to explain.

so comes to where I am stuck, I have 2 populated 1D arrays(arrayA and arrayB), that I know want to insert into randShape 2D array of [8][8]. But I dont know how to. I know I can use brackets and insert them that way but that is to much of a pain, I want a logical way to insert them.

I don't see how your refinement guarantees that all four types have the same amount in the end.

Try this with the original program:

1) when you are creating the Random object, pass a somewhat unique seed. Most people use System.currentTimeMillis();
2) Create a counter array of int[4] and use it to keep track of your results. The random number generator is supposed to yield uniform distribution.
int ctr[4];
...
int x = random.nextInt(4) +1;
randShape[row][col] = x;
ctr[x]++;
...

System.out.print("Counters: ["
for( int i=0; i<ctr.length; i++){
System.out.print(ctr[i]);
if( i < ctr.length ) {
System.out.print(",");
**
**
System.out.println("]");

umm maybe I wasn't clear enough, I have my own way of showing the shapes, I am going to draw the shapes using graphicComponent the 2D array of randShape which has the random 1-4 numbers are then used in a case statement to generate the shape based on which number it is, 1-4.


My question to you, is how can I populate a 2D array with 2 1D arrays. That is my question.

Look at this (http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/System.html#arraycopy%28java.lang.Object,%20int,%20java.lang.Object,%20int,%20int%29).

you my friend are a beast, thank you so much, this is exactly what I needed, but like any other full time worker / full time student, I rush things and not read through the API!!! haha. API always solves my problems, I just get to fussy to check the API, plus I am novice at Java, give me a good year of this under my belt and I could do alot better than I am doing now, but this is a University Course I need to do in 16 weeks!!! I am studying to be a DBA, do you think I should learn more Programming, Like Java?