Life is an old Java 1.1 AWT (GUI) applet to play John Conway's Game of Life. You define a board pattern and then watch as the computer projects future generations of this pattern based on rules for ...

Reversi is an old Java 1.1 AWT (GUI) applet to play the board game of Reversi, also known as Othello. The playing board is a rectangular grid. Your positions are shown as black circles. Positions ...

saw a Web browser and thought it was an applet,” he jokes. His point: Java was miscast as a mobile and portable GUI. Its real mission in life was to become a platform for network services.

Java applets are user-friendly because they have a graphical user interface (GUI). For this reason, Java applets are often used in learning programming. However, for novice programmers using Java ...