Java Battleship

An old school project involved creating a terminal game for Battleship using Ruby.

This is an attempt at translating that same project into Java for my own fun and learning.

Notes for further refactoring and improvement:

• The game currently uses a 4x4 board and two ships. Several methods are built upon this. In a future iteration, where a user can choose their board size and quantity of ships, most of these methods will need to be refactored. Such as:

  • How cells are generated in Board
  • Computer health and user health in Battle will need to be calculated by summing the health of all ships that the user chooses to add
  • How to calculate a valid starter coordinate in Battle

• The efficiency of the method calculating a valid starter coordinate can be improved by keeping track of:

  • Coordinates that have already been attempted during each loop, so they aren't randomly chosen again
  • Coordinates that the first ship was placed on, and are therefore no longer valid before the second loop starts