Four students win in JavaFX Coding Challenge!
There were four student winners in the JavaFX Coding Challenge! One student took home third place with a prize of $5,000, while three other students each won in the student category with a prize of $1,500 each!
Evgeni Sergeev, a student at the University of Western Australia, won third place and $5,000 for the ShiningEtherFX application. ShiningEtherFX is a tool for quickly designing attractive backgrounds for slides, web page headers, and brochures. The application paints on multiple layers, each of which has a path curve and a profile. The layer is rendered by moving the profile along the path, and multiple layers are superimposed to create the final image. The complete rendered image can then be copied onto the user's clipboard.
Diego Benna, a student at Padua University, Italy created the Real Track Car Race game. The application is not a typical car race not only because it takes the user off a standard track, but because it was designed to allow the user to select which roads they want to race on. The user sets the start and destination address while the app uses a mashup with Yahoo, and runs an algorithm to generate the route. Real Track Car Race also supports realistic collisions as well as a multi-player network.
Kazuki Hamasaki, a student at Kagoshima University, Japan, created CalcFX, a powerful scientific calculator that can run on desktop, Web, and mobile applications. CalcFX allows the user to directly input mathematical expressions without needing to learn the key layout, key combinations, or variable operations. CalcFX allows the user to see an unlimited history of calculations, which can also be copied quickly and easily.
Ramin Mohamadi, who graduated last week from Avans University, Netherlands, created Caesar Photobook Mobile as a way to show photos from different online cloud-hosted albums on a mobile phone. Caesar Photobook mobile features smooth screen transitions, a compelling UI, and all the typical functionalities common in a slide show. The application is compatible with mobile phones regardless of whether or not they have a touch screen.
All the winners will be interviewed about their winning application and their experience with JavaFX. A written interview and a podcast will be published here in Student Views and Reviews, on JavaFX.com and other Sun Developer network Web-properties.
Congratulations to all of the winners, and many thanks to the hundreds of developers that submitted their applications!
To learn more about the grand prize winners click here.
