On Thursday, March 01, 2012 02:44:48 PM, Jack Chastain wrote: ... > How ... timely. I am taking Intro to Java Programming all this week. It > hurts my head a bit. My old procedural brain just can't flex into the OO > paradigm as easily as it once could do other similar work - like learning > RPN and thinking it was cool.
I make you a bet it's not simply the OO parts of Java that are hurting your head, but rather the /event driven/ portions. i.e. Object Orientated programs can still be written in a proceedural way, in which case "OO" is simply used as a container for data + code, but the code outside of the objects is still procedural, whereas in event driven programs that isn't the case. When you try to create any kind of GUI, regardless of whether it's C++, Java, Python, etc, it means waiting for the user to do something before acting, and that means event driven programming, and that hurts pretty much anyone's head. ;-) -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Mar 7 - Desktop Shootout - 9th Anniversary of MHVLUG Apr 4 - An Intro to Chef May 2 - May 2012 Meeting
