Tic-Tac-Toe with JavaFX
Date: 26 May 2022
Category: blog Project Reflection
Tags: Imported
Abstract: Create the Tic-Tac-Toe game utilizing JavaFX as the GUI/Front-end. Learn and implement ‘event-based programming’.
[Exercise: [Tic-Tac-Toe (3 parts)]]
[- Thought process:]
[- I wanted to use multiple classes, but I was overwhelmed by the huge amount of possible approaches. I knew that I wanted to use multiple past concepts and ideas (i.e. multidimensional array), but I was not sure how to incorporate it with JavaFX.]
[- It took a while to learn how to utilize ‘event-based programming’, but it was very powerful when I learned how it worked.]
[- Most of the general components came down as I wrote it. Had I realized these ideas earlier, they would have been separated into their own classes. Since the ideas came towards the end of the project, it was difficult to separate some of these ideas.]
[- Trying to break down the steps was hard. Looking at TMC's code, the way they went about it makes sense.]
[- I wanted to refactor, but I didn't want to do so after looking at TMC's code. If I did, my approach would be similar to TMC's.]
[- Future:]
[- If I were to rework this right now from scratch, the first thing is to migrate basic code and functions into a logic class (i.e. turn order, integrating int[][]). I originally had done this BUT TMC didn’t like this code, but centering ‘Turn:’. I had used HBox as it worked for my needs.]
[- In the far future, I do want to approach this application whenever I learn more concepts and use a different programming language and tools.]
[- NOTEWORTHY: using ‘.isBlank’ worked locally, but TMC didn't want that. In order to maintain the consistent button size, the workaround used both '.replaceAll(" ", "") and ‘.isEmpty’ to achieve the same results.]
[- Missing features:]
[- Return feedback to users on who won OR was a tie game.]
[- Was unsure how to count up the tallies with only buttons, but using a multidimensional array would suffice.]
[- Show a visual of which buttons gave the winner the victory.]
[- Wanted to use array, but unsure how to incorporate it where it works together with the buttons in the application.]
[- No ‘restart ‘ and ‘quit/close’ program function.]
[- Option: once the game finishes, have the last button change to another subview with a prompt to start a new session.]