Yes that is the point, you need to shift your thinking to events and away from Well put Chris!
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > -- /** Joe Apuzzo ** Call: KD2AKU ** PGP/GPG: key ID BB5C7 **/
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