Hi gang, As of today (Sunday 4/12) I am releasing the ACM ScoreKeeper into the wild. For the uninitiated, it is a _very_ simple GUI score-keeper application that was originally designed for Spring Fling. (Since we're raffling off a game and not giving it to the highest scorer, it will instead be used in later gaming competitions.) The idea is that an ACM person can keep polling new players for their information (name, email, phone, and so on) and input that. The application then takes care of keeping track of all that data and calculating who has the highest score. I gave it a decently modular framework, so it can be modified to do many things easily -- output all scores to XML (right now it uses a simple CSV format), interact with JSP, or even store all the data on a database. What I would like is for people interested in learning GUI programming in Java to take a look at the code, play with it, and begin experimenting. You can of course ask about anything you don't understand through email or when you see Brian or I. I think a graphical environment will motivate everyone to learn and understand just how modular a program can be when good design practices are followed! If you're a manly man, you can hack away in your text editor of choice. As a mere mortal, you'll probably have better luck downloading and installing the NetBeans IDE and opening the project that way. To actually run the ScoreKeeper, launch the .JAR file in the /dist/ folder by the command "java -jar [filename]". Enjoy! -Christian Willman http://astro.temple.edu/~tua96127/ACMScoreKeeper.zip