Drawing Simple Shapes

Here is a link that helps with drawing shapes in Java

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Java_Programming/Graphics/Drawing_shapes

How to Build Simple Java Games

Here is link to explore about creating games in Java:

http://www.ehow.com/how_6188351_build-simple-java-games.html
http://www.ehow.com/how_5586283_make-java-games.html
http://www.ehow.com/list_5932405_java-math-games.html