Appendix     B

Four of a Kind

Application development isn’t an easy task. If you don’t plan carefully before you develop an application, you’ll probably waste your time and money as you endeavour to create it, and waste your users’ time and money when it doesn’t meet their needs.

Caution  It’s extremely important to test your software carefully. You could face a lawsuit if malfunctioning software causes financial harm to its users.

In this appendix, I present one technique for developing applications efficiently. I present this technique in the context of a Java application that lets you play a simple card game called Four of a Kind against the computer.

Understanding Four of a Kind

Before sitting down at the computer and writing code, you ...

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