CareerCup

This is a basic form of the game. Sorry if there are any syntax errors, I used a text editor to write the code.Also since this was a console based application I made it as simple as possible. The server reset in this case would be when the game ends. To begin a new session, the game must be restarted.

Class Palindrome
{
	String names;
	Arraylist<String> players = new Arraylist<String>();
	Arraylist<int> scores = new Arraylist<int>();
	boolean gameSession = true;
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
		Stromg readLine;
		int index = 0;
		do
		{
			System.out.println("Enter the palindrome word");
			readLine = input.nextLine();
			System.out.println("Enter your name or just hit enter to score your word(score would be added to Guest by default)");
			names = input.nextLine();
			if(names == null)
				name = "Guest"
			index = palindrome(readLine);
			if(players.contains(names))
			{
				scores[players.indexOf(names)] += index;
			}
			else
			{
				players.add(names);
				scores.add(index);
			}
			System.out.println(names + " scored " + index + ". Total score is now " + scores[players.indexOf(names)]);
			Sytem.out.println("Enter 1 to continue current game or 0 to quit and print scoresheet");
			if(input.nextInt != 1)
				gameSession = false;
		}while(gameSession);
  //will print out all the players scores for the hall of fame
		for(int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
		{
			System.out.println(players[i] + " scored " + scores[i]);
		}	
	}

	//Palindrome function takes the input word and returns score
	public int palindrome(String pWord)
	{
		//take out all commonly occuring punctuation marks
		pWord = pWord.replace(' ', '');
		pWord = pWord.replace('.', '');
		pWord = pWord.replace(',', '');
		pWord = pWord.replace("//'", "");
		if(pWord.equals(new StringBuffer(pWord).reverse().toString();)
			return pWord.length;
		else 
			return 0;
	}	
}