Btw, what is a "text-based" game?

Hi! Thanks for all the replies. Sorry for the long post. I kinda got busy with other stuff... Anyways, as I've mentioned before, we're working in groups. My group decided to make a slot machine. One of my teammates already got the logic set up (with codes and stuff), so I decided to just work on the graphics. I already have the program with graphics, but now we have to figure out how to add a KeyListener or maybe a MouseListener, doesn't really matter which one we use. We're using the paint() of the GfxApp class, and we have no clue of how to add a listener. Other than that, I think we're ok. Anyways, thanks again for the replies!  

Thanks so much! We won't start our projects until late April, although some of my classmates are just too excited to wait that they're almost finished with theirs. We're working in groups. I'm kinda busy with other school stuff, but I'll try my best to check out everything you told me to check out. Hope you can find that something you wrote. I very much appreciate it. Gotta go now... err, still have some homework to do. Thanks again!  

That was fast... uhm... we aren't really learning anything new right now. We're kinda reviewing for the AP Test this Spring. I can't really tell how much I know of Java... probably not that much yet. Some of my classmates already took Java last year, not sure how that happened 'coz last year Comp.Sci was taught using C++. Anyways, I might just go with a simple game. 3d would be cool, but I don't have much knowledge to take the risk. Not at this point.

Hi everyone! I'm a junior in high school and I'm currently taking my first year of Java. I took Comp.Sci last year and had a great time learning C++. Now I'm in AP Comp.Sci 2 and they changed the language from C++ to Java, so now I have to learn it. We have to make a game with Java as our end-of-the-year project. It doesn't have to be so glorious like the games professional programmers make, but honestly speaking, I'm totally clueless. I know that I have to learn a lot more about Java codes and stuff. So, is there anything you would recommmend that I study?! Something that could get me started?! I'd really appreciate it. Thanks in advance!