FXApps

The World Cup Brazil is happening! It's exciting to see people from all over the world visiting my country! Today I decided to create another World Cup App, this time I'll use JavaFX, but I won't write any Java code . It's a simple app to visualize all the world cup matches and click on a game for details about it. I spent less than 3 hours working on the core of the application and a few more hours working on the details. Getting the resources to create the App By resources I meant images and to do this I downloaded all the flags images from Fifa site. It was a small and easy scrapping. Notice that all images are in under the following URL:  http://img.fifa.com/images/flags/4/{CODE}.png. To download all flags I used the following Python Script: import urllib2 codes = open('countries_codes.txt', 'r') for line in codes:         code = line.replace('\n', '').lower() + '.png'         img_url = 'http://img.fifa.com/ima...