TORTOISE VS RABBIT - THREAD

The classic rabbit vs rabbit but now, we can't predict who'll win.

Introduction

That's a challenge proposed by Gemini AI when I prompted:

"Give me suggestions of projects to use Threads"

Then, Gemini give me this suggestion:

Tip

Goal

Create a racing simulator between a tortoise and a hare, using threads to represent the movements of each animal. The hare will have a constant speed, while the tortoise will have a variable speed. The race ends when one of the animals reaches the finish line.

Functionalities

• Simulation of the race in real time, updating the position of the animals on the screen.
• Control the speed of the hare.
• Random generation of the turtle's speed with each step.
• Display of the position of the animals and the elapsed time of the race.
• Race winner announcement.

Implementation

The main implementation's rules is:

• We have 3 entity classes that represents the Race, the Rabbit and the Tortoise. Rabbit and Tortoise extends the abstract class Player.

• The abstract class Player is a Runnable and it is in the method run() that we use move our Players.

• The velocity of each player determines how fast will be the pauses between each step of it.

• The winner will be the Player that finish the Race in lower time. We time each player's run.

• The user inserts the number of steps that players have to walk.

Installation and Running

We aren't using any external Lib yet. We just use maven to build our project and run it.

Use the command mvn clean install and after use the command java -jar target/tortoise-vs-rabbit-threads-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar.

That's it!

Conclusion

I hope you enjoy my implementation. If you have any suggestions or if you are seeing any possible improvement, please, collab with this project.