Visual Programming with Java
For my Open University course I have started with “Visual Programming with Java”.
I know it’s more fun as Discrete Math :)
And it’s quite fun to finally “learn” programming, as I’m a autodidact. The level is very very basic, but that doesn’t matter to me. In the last years my experience is that it can be very helpfull to really learn the basics.
The real fun is that I have to use windows again. The course uses Borland Jbuilder 8, with a license which only runs on windows XP according to the manual, but I use it on my very old windows98 machine without any problems.
And oh boy, what is an IDE fun. Programming like playing with LEGO.
“You have forgotten a semi-colon right here”.
Oh…thanks :)
Instead of digging through 2500 lines of code where that missing T_SPACE is…
Java is also fun to work with. Very straightforward and easier than C (no memory management / garbage collection needed). I really can tell know where PHP has it’s roots. It really helps me getting some insight in OOP concepts, which are used in PHP 5 as well.
btw…writing this on windows, WordPress really looks better in Firefox as in Safari…damn.
Tags: java, oop, open university, PHP
July 24th, 2005 at 08:34
Oh you windows convert! Better not let that english bloke read it…
July 24th, 2005 at 09:27
Well…As long I’ll have to un-install both the firewall as the virusscanner to get an useable system…no worries :)
With the firewall and virusscanner installed the system hangs every 3 minutes for 10 seconds…
And without that software installed, I don’t dare to browse the internet except for my own sites. Even http://www.nu.nl showed in the past to be unsafe when browsed with windows.
July 24th, 2005 at 09:29
Heh…and that “english bloke” doesn’t read blogs. He hate blogs.