Top Ten list for a Trivia game
Hi ALL!!!!
I LOVE this Java thing, it is STARTING to make sense to me and I am loving it! Just finished another semester of it and am excited that the concepts are finally starting to take shape.
With that being said, I have set out to create a simple Trivia game using a Swing Gui ((( Help with good layout question to follow later))).
So far I have setup the program to read questions from a text file randomly, making sure the question has not already been asked. I have the score setup and still have the 3 missed questions method before game over to do.
HERE IS MY QUESTION: I want to make a Top Ten scores list in the interface. My initial thoughts have been to use a text file and append it when a new player breaks a top ten score. ((Also to read it into the Gui through and iteration - while making JLabels out of the Name and score.BUT I am not thinking this is the best or easiest way to do this. Because I not only have to read the scores and decide if the newest score is higher and then append the file BUT then I have to ReORDER all the scores.
We touched briefly on Linked lists in my last class. This sounds like it might work better - but how would I keep the scores in the memory? Maybe keep them in a text file, pull them out into a linked list? Then use that to do any manuevering and adding to the interface that I need to?
** Any help?
