At 08:55 PM 9/26/2002, you wrote: >Nope I am not in the 9th grade. I am just starting 1st year >university/college. > >And I am writing a number of emails because I am replying to each of the >emails that I received.
If you think replying to each person would be the polite thing to do, then please use their email address in the "From:" header and not the "Reply-To" header which we all have to read. There is nothing polite or personal about replying to each email and sending that reply to the entire group. No one in this group can guarantee you will be good at or like programming. You may have 2 or 3 or more careers in this life. If you want, give programming a try. If you don't like it, move on to something else and use what you have learned. Check out www.javaranch.com for help with your programming issues after you have tried coding them yourself. Skip the programs that don't have solutions and go on to books that do have them or tutorials where the answers are provided. Do whatever works for you. Join the nearest Java Users Group. Use Google to find one near you. Go, listen, learn. There you can talk to those who program in Java on a daily basis. They can answer your questions. Try limiting your emails to 3 or 4 a day. Save them in your drafts folder and combine them if you must send more. I have subscribed to this list twice and unsubscribed once. There can be some very interesting discussions about topics I may not have been exposed to, but there are a lot of annoying comments and time-consuming emails that I would just as soon not be posted. Let's all just ignore the questions we find annoying. If we don't reply, perhaps those posting the emails that annoy us will just go away or quit posting. Remember, when you reply just saying how annoyed you are, then we all have to read that email. Please take it off-line if the discussion isn't about Java or would not benefit the entire list in some way. I would like to be able to continue subscribing and know I am going to read emails that will make me a better Java programmer. Regards, BJ >And I thought that would be the polite thing to do. >As people have the taken the time, effort and interest to respond to me, >then I should have at least the decency to reply. > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Greg Gent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "JDJList" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 12:48 AM >Subject: [jdjlist] RE: is this the sort of code you deal with "in the real >world" ? > > > > Agreed. > > > > However, I don't think Tim IS a developer. If I understood the thread > > correctly, he's a student, young at that, who is contemplating java > > programming(development) as a career path? > > > > Somewhere in the thread I thought I read that he was in the 9th grade. >IMO, > > At that age the question shouldn't be about what programming language to > > use. Focus should be on what basic skill sets do I enjoy and/or have some > > proficiency towards. Your comment about whether he should be a devloper >or > > not was, IMHO, spot-on. > > > > As I mentioned in an earlier post, PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS are most > > important. Once you've disected the problem into implementable pieces the > > coding generally follows trivially. Obviously, not all PROGRAMS are >simple. > > But it is my contention that the actual coding is not the difficult part. > > Analyzing the problem and deciding upon a tactical approach to the >solution > > is, most times, 90% of the effort. > > > > It appears to me that Tim's statement "I don't know how to solve the > > problem!" is NOT the same thing as "I don't know how to code the >solution." > > > > My .02. > > > > Greg > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Alan Williamson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 10:16 AM > > To: JDJList > > Subject: [jdjlist] RE: is this the sort of code you deal with "in the > > real world" ? > > > > > > > > ||| IS this the sort of code you deal with in the real world ? > > ||| > > ||| If so, then my deepest fears really are true -- that java > > ||| in the real world > > ||| may be a little too difficult for me to handle. > > ||| > > ||| And that's really concerning. > > > > Tim ... are you kidding? No seriously ... i am not joking with you here, >i > > am deeply concerned. > > > > This code is *NOT* complicated ... and please someone correct me if i am > > wrong. I looked through it again just to make sure, but there is nothing > > there that should concern any java developer. > > > > To change your JDJList options, please visit: > > http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm > > > > ______________________________________________ > > To change your JDJList options, please visit: > > http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm > > > > > >______________________________________________ >To change your JDJList options, please visit: >http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm ______________________________________________ To change your JDJList options, please visit: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm
