And on we go: Java Programming for Kids, Parents and Grandparents, chapter 10: More Java Building Blocks (p.139, 150 in PDF). This chapter basically covers a handful of further Java "building blocks", which were not covered so far. I assume these are necessary to the completion of the book's (final) "example/exercise" goals: creating a graphical ping-pong game.
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Monday, March 2. 2009
JP4KP&G: Chapter 10. More Java Building Blocks
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Wednesday, February 11. 2009
JP4KP&G: Chapter 9. Saving the Game Score
Finally got done with chapter nine of "Java Programming for Kids, Parents and Grandparents": Saving the Game Score (p.124/136="explicit"/PDF page number).
Took me a while to "get around" to working on it, in sufficient sessions to work out the exercises. No particular reason, just didn't DO it often enough!
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Took me a while to "get around" to working on it, in sufficient sessions to work out the exercises. No particular reason, just didn't DO it often enough!
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Tuesday, January 20. 2009
JP4KP&G: Chapter 8: Program Errors - Exceptions
Well, finally, here's the next post about my self-inflicted Java™ tutorials: JP4KP&G: Chapter 8: Program Errors - Exceptions.
This seemed to be a relatively "short" chapter (11 pages), compared to the previous chapter (ch.7, Tic-Tac-Toe, 19 pages), seemed LESS than half the time to read. But it took me about five and a half (5.5) hours over the past week to get the "Practice" exercises done.
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This seemed to be a relatively "short" chapter (11 pages), compared to the previous chapter (ch.7, Tic-Tac-Toe, 19 pages), seemed LESS than half the time to read. But it took me about five and a half (5.5) hours over the past week to get the "Practice" exercises done.
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Sunday, December 28. 2008
Back to JP4KP&G - Chapter 7: Tic-Tac-Toe
Updated 2008-01-08 21:03!
So, FINALLY, back to "Java Programming for Kids, Parents and Grandparents" (subsequently, "initialized" here as "JP4KP&G").
Just to recap a bit ...
I recently acquired an electronic copy of "Head First Java," part of the "Head First" series from O'Reilly, which seemed like an interesting way to try to teach stuff from books.
The "Head First" book seemed like it might be a good way to jump-start my only "formal" New Year's Resolution: to Kick-Start My Ass Back into Code-Slinging by re-kindling my self-exploration of Java (the programming language, I hate coffee). But first, I feel as if I should finish my previous Java book, since I made at least some progress with it.
So, in doing so (back to JP4KP&G), I decided to back-track just a little: "Chapter 7 The Tic-Tac-Toe Applet". As far as I can recall (and from my previous notes), earlier this year (still 2008, just barely), I'd gotten as far as Chapter 9, but since the "Tic-Tac-Toe" applet was the first "substantially non-trivial" example, I decided to start from there.
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So, FINALLY, back to "Java Programming for Kids, Parents and Grandparents" (subsequently, "initialized" here as "JP4KP&G").
Just to recap a bit ...
I recently acquired an electronic copy of "Head First Java," part of the "Head First" series from O'Reilly, which seemed like an interesting way to try to teach stuff from books.
The "Head First" book seemed like it might be a good way to jump-start my only "formal" New Year's Resolution: to Kick-Start My Ass Back into Code-Slinging by re-kindling my self-exploration of Java (the programming language, I hate coffee). But first, I feel as if I should finish my previous Java book, since I made at least some progress with it.
So, in doing so (back to JP4KP&G), I decided to back-track just a little: "Chapter 7 The Tic-Tac-Toe Applet". As far as I can recall (and from my previous notes), earlier this year (still 2008, just barely), I'd gotten as far as Chapter 9, but since the "Tic-Tac-Toe" applet was the first "substantially non-trivial" example, I decided to start from there.
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