Interview With Diego Benna, Student Winner of the JavaFX Coding Challenge

Student Views and Reviews recently sat down with Diego Benna, developer of the Real Track Car Race application, and one of the student winners of the JavaFX Coding Challenge. Diego is a student at Padua University, Italy where he is studying IT. Diego began using JavaFX in January after reading about it on Sun's Web site. He was immediately “fascinated by the effects and the simplicity of the code, ”which was all he needed to try it out and “found that it was very easy to use.” Diego taught himself the programming language by studying the code examples on JavaFX.com.

The complete interview with Diego can be found here.

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Student winner: JavaFX Coding Challenge

A mail arrived from a Sun's employee:

CONGRATULATIONS! You are one of the Student Winners of the JavaFX Coding Challenge. Your JavaFX Application, Real Track Car Race, was selected as one of the winning Student applications! [...]

Thank you very much! i'm very very happy! Congrats to all winners:

• 1st Place: Music Explorer FX, Sten Anderson
  
  
• 2nd Place: Lifescope, Naoaki Suganuma
  
  
• 3rd Place: ShiningEtherFX, Evgeni Sergeev

Student Winners:

• Caesar Photobook Mobile, Ramin Mohammadi
  
  
• Real Track Car Race, Diego Benna
  
  
• CalcFX, Kazuki Hamasaki

REAL TRACK CAR RACE

This is the jnlp: http://diegosoftware.altervista.org/TRACK/TRACK.jnlp

Project web site and source code: http://code.google.com/p/realtrackcarrace/

Slide presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/benfante/applicazione-javafx-corsa-di-auto-su-tracciati-reali

Jug Padua University meeting: http://www.archive.org/details/ApplicazioneJavafxCorsaDiAutoSuTracciatiReali

This is my game submit in javafx challenge. This is a car race in real track. You can set start address and end address and run in multiplayer in real routing generated track (you can see your home street). In this game there is a phyisic library, RMI, and DigLayout library all open source. There are some track generating algoritmics. I mashup data from free api multimap.com for routing point and yahoo api for geocoding.