Quick update before javahackercoding 6 (so this is 5?)

September 3, 2009 by Josh Nunn

This entry is part 2 of 8 in the series Java Class

Java Class

Quickie:

  • Last class was useless, as I forgot my USB with my current work on it so I couldn’t actually use the time to keep working on my assignment.
  • I got the assignment written and handed up, but I wasn’t happy with it. I have the control stuff sorted (if, while), but not the OO-ness of Java.
  • The assignment code felt bulky and wrong, and I need to split it into separate classes/methods, but just cant figure it out.
  • My text still hasn’t arrived and I’m using the 2002 version. It’s out of date and the exercises are absolutely brimming over with wrongability
  • There is something weird about fully understanding every example you attempt to write, and knowing exactly what the lecturer is talking about, and reading all the chapters you are supposed to, and still finding that the assignment you have to submit in a week is beyond what you know you know. It feels like the assignment was stuck into the flow of the course prematurely.

That is all. If you are a Javahackercoder and you are reading this, and you can spare a bit of your time to help explain a few things to me about making decisions about which parts of my code to create objects/methods from, I’d be eternally grateful1.

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  1. Conditions apply, gratitude not guaranteed to extend for eternity ↩

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  • shaunau
    If you still want some help give me a yell on twitter.
  • Now you're just trying to be the last comment. :P
  • Elle
    Like I said, when you can learn ahead using the courses resources it's really great.
  • Well that's stupid!
  • Elle
    I realise that it's not that way for you as you have no textbook. I was just explaining why I think they put things in before you've learnt them :)
  • Well that would be fine, but my textbook hasn't arrived and I'm not able to get ahead the way I want. Plus it feels like I'm not learning right if I moosh something together.
  • Elle
    I think that is a quite standard thing in Tafe/Uni assignments, the assignments being a week or so ahead.  I assumed it was the 'you have the resources, and you're supposed to have the ability to learn for yourself'. I enjoy it for the fact the next few weeks I'm actually ahead of the work, and you can ask the more detailed questions then just trying to figure it out.
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