I started college this September, studying Further Maths, Physics and Computing (all A Levels). My favourite out of the three is definitely Computing, because it's all programming computers and making programs and things like that. All of the coding is done in Java, and today I finished my latest mini-project; I managed to re-create the classic tennis game Pong! It may not look like an exact replica, but it's fairly close.

A screenshot of a game I made similar to Pong. It looks almost exactly the same, save for the score at the top, which is in a different font.

Also, the physics can be a little off (sometimes the ball slides along the paddle rather than bouncing off for some reason) and it can be a tad difficult - the ball doesn’t pause at all when it comes back after a point, something the original game included. However, considering that I had never touched Java before a month ago, I think this is fairly impressive, if I do say so myself. I won't bore you with posting the code or anything like that, but I will tell you: the amount of instances of the letters 'x' and 'y' are terrifying.

Another screenshot of the Pong game. This time, it's the end of a game, and the person on the right has 10 points, making them the winner. The text "Winner!" appears on that player's side of the screen.