For all the newbies who wants to learn Java
I was a newbie like 4 months ago. i have some skills of OOP in C++ like 2 years back but since then i did'nt took any of programming language courses. I have experience in MSaccess and MYsql. i did my internship Last summer with Tennessee Education Lottery as a Database Analyst. At that time i realized what a Corporate Enviorment looks like. Trust me it was a formal interview and i passed it and they placed me in the IT department to write some scripts for the GUI terminal and at the same time create a Company Security Database. i did completed my project but i had to Learn Mysql. and then i realized Java was getting very popular. alot of people told me in the forums to go Java tutorial but i will not agree to start from the sun tutorial. you can do it only if you have a good or may be medium experience of OOP. it was really tough for me and then this magic guy came on the forum and told me to go on this website if you want to learn Java.
http://chortle.ccsu.edu/java5/cs151java.html
This site is a brilliant site specially the exercise problems and the quizes really attracted me to Java alot and now i came to realize how easy it is to program in Java rather than C++. Java forums have helped me alot in solving those exercise problems (not with the code but with a good explanation) which was very helpful for me. out of my 210 post i guess i have helped 30 people out and the rest of the questions are regarding those exercises. i came to know encapsulation, inheritance and all that stuff. though i am still not very perfect like i am still having trouble with ComparTo thing but it takes more practice. the more you practice the more you learn. so all the newbies if you really want to learn java even if you dont have any experience in OOp this is the site where you need to start. Hope this will definitely help you alot. thanks to all the Senior members navycoder, captain, paulcw, duffy, turingpest and others also who have helped me in the past. without you i would have not achieved the goal of learning java. now my next step is going to be learn GUI programming Swing. looks fun to me. but at the same time i have my final project for this semester to make on ONline Testing program which will have a database, php scripting and html and xml.
I will post if i have any problems
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fastmikea] at [2007-11-26 16:00:05]
Those are just a bunch of run-on sentences.kind regards,Jos
> I was a newbie like 4 months ago. i have some skills
> of OOP in C++ like 2 years back but since then i
> did'nt took any of programming language courses. I
> have experience in MSaccess and MYsql. i did my
> internship Last summer with Tennessee Education
> Lottery as a Database Analyst. At that time i
> realized what a Corporate Enviorment looks like.
> Trust me it was a formal interview and i passed it
> and they placed me in the IT department to write some
> scripts for the GUI terminal and at the same time
> create a Company Security Database.
Wow they really must like to gamble if they put you in charge of a security database - no offense meant, but that isn't the sort of thing you would want a brand new person working on, unless of course they were giving really high odds ;-)
I believe thats what internship means. you learn while you are doing your intern yes for professional job no ways. when i say security database that was regarding the tickets stolen from the store, etc.... and yes i created some of the cash3 and cash4 numbers but those were just to check the Testing for the terminal. I wish i know the inside story
i remember my friend got hired in Fedex also as an intern to be responsible for IBM mainframes but did not had any experience. at the time their internship was over they got experience and 5 of them were directky hired in fedex.
Good job! I do have to say that I use the Sun Tutorials when I learn something new, and java is my first language.
Different strokes for different folks. Two popular beginner books are "Head First Java" and "Thinking in Java", although TiJ is so verbose that I can't glance through it without muttering, "get on with it, Bruce".
> java is my> first language.I'm impressed, my first language was English.
> I'm impressed, my first language was English.That was my second. ;-)
English doesn't appear to be fastmike's first language either.
HI, i am a newbie for java, Thanks for that url. its really good and that will really help me in learning java.
> HI, i am a newbie for java, Thanks for that url. its> really good and that will really help me in learning> java.Looks like FastMike made another account to try to save face.
> Different strokes for different folks. Two popular> beginner books are "Head First Java" and "Thinking in> Java", although TiJ is so verbose that I can't glance> through it without muttering, "get on with it, Bruce".LOL.nice
> > HI, i am a newbie for java, Thanks for that url.
> its
> > really good and that will really help me in
> learning
> > java.
>
> Looks like FastMike made another account to try to
> save face.
For a second even i felt the same but after looking at the screen name the newbie has used i think it's not him.
I am not really amused at the order of the topics in that website.Exception handling is the last chapter!
Why? Should exceptions be exceptional and rare?I don't think exceptions should be on page one of a tutorial.%
> Why? Should exceptions be exceptional and rare?
>
> I don't think exceptions should be on page one of a
> tutorial.
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It's not a topic which should be dealt at the end of the book.If the author handles Exception handling at the end,we would have a 100's of tyros fumbling with exceptions with half a thousand posts at the forum asking us how to solve their problem on exceptions.
> Why? Should exceptions be exceptional and rare?> > I don't think exceptions should be on page one of a> tutorial.And neither do i think it should inaugrate the book!
> It's not a topic which should be dealt at the end of
> the book.If the author handles Exception handling at
> the end,we would have a 100's of tyros fumbling with
> exceptions with half a thousand posts at the forum
> asking us how to solve their problem on exceptions.
What's this "we" stuff? You aren't helping anybody with anything.
Are Exceptions handled well in that tutorial, even if it's the last section? Then I say it's fine. We can quibble about the order in which it's best to present the material, but the point is to do it well.
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