On Sep 24, 11:21 pm, "ooo.stephen" <[email protected]> wrote: > lab 1007 - exception handling. > > i've noted a few labs where errors in the instructions do not allow > the exercise to work, and i find it hard to believe i'm the first to > report it. this must be especially difficult for those with even less > programming experience than me. has anyone on your end gone through > these exercise to confirm they're correct? as the course advances, > i'm increasingly concerned i won't be able to spot these errors. it's > hard enough to learn new things, let alone incorrect new things. do > you feel the same way, and what can you do to ensure the course > material is true? First when the labs are written all the exercises are really made as you would. Secondly when a lab is changed, either because the APIs are changed or for any reason, the exercises are made again. It may happen that in a hurry, which happens rather frequently, not all the exercises are tested, which opens the door for errors. But most of the times, errors come from not reading exactly the instructions or from a special programming environment, such as endorsed libraries, special programming environment variables, etc. which unfortunately we cannot much about it, apart from having exactly the same environment, machine, architecture, etc. That said, the Java Programming course is far from having those special environment variables, endorsed libraries, etc. And finally, if you report errors with a true reference (that is right number of the lab and right name of it, right number of the exercise and inside the exercise right sub section, you can be sure that the lab will be checked entirely again as per instructions or the part which do not work anymore removed if it is impossible to make it work again within a reasonable time.
So, throw away your anxiety, don't hesitate to ask, report what you think are errors (but accurately please, I cannot spend two hours searching throughout all the labs of all the courses where exactly an error if any is to be found and alas most of the time that is the case, which obviously slows any correction of errors and can also lead indirectly to errors in new courses). And above all, have fun programming. Michèle Garoche -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaprogrammingwithpassion?hl=en
