this is the instructions I was given to creat a hangman program, I have no clue

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this is the instructions I was given to creat a hangman program, I have no clue where to start if someone could just give me some guidlines thanks!

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// Hope this code will help you to make your hangman game and make you to understand what you have to do and from where you will strt your work import java.applet.Applet; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import java.util.Random; import java.lang.reflect.Array; public class hangman extends Applet implements ActionListener{ static final int DEAD=13; // amount of errors till loss private int errors; // amount of errors private String message; // error or victorie private String information; // information of the message private String rword; // the rword private StringBuffer gword;// the gword private Button bStart; // Button "Restart" private Button bGo; // Button "Go" private TextField tfLetter; // letter box private Font fnt; // common font public void init(){ fnt = new Font( "Monospaced", 0, 12 ); setFont(fnt); Create textbox for guess letter tfLetter = new TextField(); // Create buttons and labels bStart = new Button("Restart"); bGo = new Button("Go"); // Add the graphical elements to the applet add(bStart); add(new Label("Guess a letter:")); add(tfLetter); add(bGo); // Buttons are events: bStart.addActionListener(this); bGo.addActionListener(this); // Start first game initGame(); } public void initGame(){ /* Setting the errors to 0 */ errors=0; /* Enter the wordslist, separated by a | here: */ String str = "computer|radio|calculator|teacher|bureau|police|geometry|president|subject|country|enviroment|classroom|animals|province|month|politics|puzzle|instrument|kitchen|language|vampire|ghost|solution|service|software|virus25|security|phonenumber|expert|website|agreement|support|compatibility|advanced|search|triathlon|immediately|encyclopedia|endurance|distance|nature|history|organization|international|championship|government|popularity|thousand|feature|wetsuit|fitness|legendary|variation|equal|approximately|segment|priority|physics|branche|science|mathematics|lightning|dispersion|accelerator|detector|terminology|design|operation|foundation|application|prediction|reference|measurement|concept|perspective|overview|position|airplane|symmetry|dimension|toxic|algebra|illustration|classic|verification|citation|unusual|resource|analysis|license|comedy|screenplay|production|release|emphasis|director|trademark|vehicle|aircraft|experiment"; String[] temp; /* delimiter */ String delimiter = "\|"; /* given string will be split by the argument delimiter provided. */ temp = str.split(delimiter); /* Setting the seed */ Random randomGenerator = new Random(); /* Generating random number */ int randomInt = randomGenerator.nextInt(temp.length); rword = new String(temp[randomInt]); char positions[] = new char[rword.length()]; for (int i=0; i 0){ g.drawLine(90, baseY,200,baseY); } if (errors > 1){ // bar up102. g.drawLine(125,baseY,125,baseY-100); } if (errors > 2){ g.drawLine(110,baseY,125,baseY-15); } if (errors > 3){ g.drawLine(140,baseY,125,baseY-15); } if (errors > 4){ // side bar g.drawLine(125,baseY-100,175,baseY-100); } if (errors > 5){ g.drawLine(125,baseY-85,140,baseY-100); } if (errors > 6){ // rope g.drawLine(175,baseY-100,175,baseY-75); } if (errors > 7){ // body g.drawOval(170,baseY-75,10,12); } if (errors > 8){ g.drawOval(170,baseY-65,15,25); } if (errors > 9){ // arms g.drawLine(160,baseY-65,170,baseY-60); } if (errors > 10){ g.drawLine(183,baseY-60,193,baseY-65); } if (errors > 11){ // legs g.drawLine(165,baseY-30,170,baseY-45); } if (errors > 12){ g.drawLine(183,baseY-45,193,baseY-30); } // Show the messages g.drawString( message, 40, baseY+25 ); g.drawString( information, 25, baseY+45 ); g.drawString( new String (gword), 110, 60); } public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){ if (e.getSource() == bStart){ initGame(); } if (e.getSource() == bGo){ processTurn(); // Delete the letter input box tfLetter.setText(""); repaint(); } } private void processTurn(){ String s, t; char a; s = tfLetter.getText(); a = s.charAt(0); if (!Character.isLetter(a)){ message="Only enter letters!"; return; } if (s.length()>1){ message="One letter at a time!"; return; } // Has the letter been guessed t = new String(gword); if (t.indexOf(s) != -1){ message="Letter has already been guessed"; return; } // If the letter doesn't occur in the rword if (rword.indexOf(s) == -1){ message=""; errors++; if (errors==DEAD){ message="You lost!"; information = "Click on restart for another chance!"; } return; } // Replace dots in gword with the found letter. for (int i=0; i

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