Please Help Me With This!

[TehJadedAssassin]

Hey guys, I am trying to make a zombie game but I can't figure out how to make it so that when a zombie hits me I lose (x) amount of health. Part of the problem is that 1. I need it so that i can have an armor variable, and 2. I need it so that I can have different zombies do different amounts of damage. Thanks in advance!
~TehJadedAssassin

[Norm]

Did you have any questions about your code? Post the code and the questions.

[TehJadedAssassin]

I can't post code I don't have. I need to know how to do it before I can make it :P

[Norm]

Before you write any code you need to work out a design for the program. What steps should it take to do the job?
You should make a list of the features you want, then work from that to what the program will have to do to accomplish those features. Then move on to writing the code to do what your design describes.

where are you in getting a design?

[TehJadedAssassin]

I think I've finished most of the design but I've been sitting around thinking about how to do stuff like entity movement, health, weapons, and armor, but i can't seem to figure most of it out D: I don't like not knowing much java it's not helping much...

[Norm]

Much of the design should not be language specific. Given a design, the program should be able to be written in many different languages. It's when you start coding that you use the language features.