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Tianerad 999
4,063 PointsHow does Minecraft and websites/programs display their java code?
First thing, thanks from clicking on this question.
You know how websites like Google display things? Like in the home page, the Google word is an image with colors, it has font, icons, and borders! It might use HTML and CSS, but no way can you do all of that in a compiler. Minecraft, it has graphics, textures that go on a mob, like a pig. falling sand entities. I know there is a way to display this. If you could please leave me an answer, I would really like it. Thanks!
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Daniel Turato
Java Web Development Techdegree Graduate 30,124 PointsMost websites use HTML, CSS & Javscript on the frontend alongside a backend server language to handle logic & data which could be in Java. They communicate via REST API's most commonly which you can learn about here on treehouse - https://teamtreehouse.com/library/introduction-to-rest-apis. For Minecraft, it is a desktop application meaning it has to display a graphical UI. After a little research, I believe Minecraft uses this https://www.lwjgl.org/ for their graphics (not 100%). However, I wouldn't start learning this framework straight away. I would first make your way through the java courses here and make sure you take the JavaFX course. And finally, yes the google image is just an image.