Thread: Peice of code confusing

Hi,

I am studying this peice of code used in bluej, it is part of the world of zuul game example but there is this part of it that I want to know what it does. what does the public static etc do, what does the game g = new game do and what does g.play do
public static void main(String[] args)
game g = newGame();
g.play()

public class Game 
{
    private Parser parser;
    private Room currentRoom;
 
    //
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {   
        //
        Game g = new Game();
        //
        g.play();
 
    }
 
    /**
     * Create the game and initialise its internal map.
     */
    public Game() 
    {
        createRooms();
        parser = new Parser();
    }
 
    /**
     * Create all the rooms and link their exits together.
     */
    private void createRooms()
    {
        Room outside, theater, pub, lab, office;
 
        // create the rooms
        outside = new Room("outside the main entrance of the university");
        theater = new Room("in a lecture theater");
        pub = new Room("in the campus pub");
        lab = new Room("in a computing lab");
        office = new Room("in the computing admin office");
 
        // initialise room exits
        outside.setExit("east", theater);
        outside.setExit("south", lab);
        outside.setExit("west", pub);
 
        theater.setExit("west", outside);
 
        pub.setExit("east", outside);
 
        lab.setExit("north", outside);
        lab.setExit("east", office);
 
        office.setExit("west", lab);
 
        currentRoom = outside;  // start game outside
    }
 
    /**
     *  Main play routine.  Loops until end of play.
     */
    public void play() 
    {            
        printWelcome();
 
        // Enter the main command loop.  Here we repeatedly read commands and
        // execute them until the game is over.
 
        boolean finished = false;
        while (! finished) {
            Command command = parser.getCommand();
            finished = processCommand(command);
        }
        System.out.println("Thank you for playing.  Good bye.");
    }
 
    /**
     * Print out the opening message for the player.
     */
    private void printWelcome()
    {
        System.out.println();
        System.out.println("Welcome to the World of Zuul!");
        System.out.println("World of Zuul is a new, incredibly boring adventure game.");
        System.out.println("Type 'help' if you need help.");
        System.out.println();
        System.out.println(currentRoom.getLongDescription());
    }
 
    /**
     * Given a command, process (that is: execute) the command.
     * @param command The command to be processed.
     * @return true If the command ends the game, false otherwise.
     */
    private boolean processCommand(Command command) 
    {
        boolean wantToQuit = false;
 
        if(command.isUnknown()) {
            System.out.println("I don't know what you mean...");
            return false;
        }
 
        String commandWord = command.getCommandWord();
        if (commandWord.equals("help")) {
            printHelp();
        }
        else if (commandWord.equals("go")) {
            goRoom(command);
        }
        else if (commandWord.equals("quit")) {
            wantToQuit = quit(command);
        }
        // else command not recognised.
        return wantToQuit;
    }
 
    // implementations of user commands:
 
    /**
     * Print out some help information.
     * Here we print some stupid, cryptic message and a list of the 
     * command words.
     */
    private void printHelp() 
    {
        System.out.println("You are lost. You are alone. You wander");
        System.out.println("around at the university.");
        System.out.println();
        System.out.println("Your command words are:");
        parser.showCommands();
    }
 
    /** 
     * Try to in to one direction. If there is an exit, enter the new
     * room, otherwise print an error message.
     */
    private void goRoom(Command command) 
    {
        if(!command.hasSecondWord()) {
            // if there is no second word, we don't know where to go...
            System.out.println("Go where?");
            return;
        }
 
        String direction = command.getSecondWord();
 
        // Try to leave current room.
        Room nextRoom = currentRoom.getExit(direction);
 
        if (nextRoom == null) {
            System.out.println("There is no door!");
        }
        else {
            currentRoom = nextRoom;
            System.out.println(currentRoom.getLongDescription());
        }
    }
 
    /** 
     * "Quit" was entered. Check the rest of the command to see
     * whether we really quit the game.
     * @return true, if this command quits the game, false otherwise.
     */
    private boolean quit(Command command) 
    {
        if(command.hasSecondWord()) {
            System.out.println("Quit what?");
            return false;
        }
        else {
            return true;  // signal that we want to quit
        }
    }
}

If you want to learn Java programming, you should start from the basics until you can read the code and understand what it does. This code is something you should wait for until you understand some OOP. I'll answer your questions as best as possible, although you may not understand the answers or terminology.

public static void main (String[] args) is commonly called the main method and the simplest way to think about it does is that any class containing it will be executable. That is, if a class doesn't contain it, then it cannot, "run". This is one, if not the first thing you learn about in Java programming.

Game g = new Game(); is instantiating an object named g pertaining to the class Game. It has to be created in this class due to the visibility of the methods (i.e. non-static). At the same time, it executes the code within the no-argument constructor.

g.play() is calling the method named play().

Your question is similar to someone who doesn't know French, picking up a French book and asking someone what each word means. You don't learn French that way, and you don't learn Programming the way you're doing it. You're questions are basically answered in most all intro tutorials or first chapters of text books, and that's what I recommend that you do: Go to the Java tutorials or a decent Java text book and start at the beginning, learning the rudiments of Java first.

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Edit: On looking at your prior posts, it appears that you've been told all of this before. Please understand that learning to program is like learning math. You can't progress unless you learn the basics, and this will require time and effort. It looks like it is past time for you to get started. If you can't do this, then maybe it's time to drop the course.