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Showing posts with label beginner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beginner. Show all posts
Saturday, June 11, 2016

Basics: Just what IS an object, anyway?

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This is a pretty long one by the standards of this blog.  Try to stay with it, though, the concepts are crucial. Whether people are experi...
Friday, June 3, 2016

Super basic object stuff

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I am not going to rework this right now, I think it gets the main points across as is. From a recent Reddit post: What you are a...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

It's a SERIES OF TUBES!

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I've been struck in recent days by a number of posts over at /r/javahelp, all with the same basic theme.  They've got some code, and...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

Old McDonald had a File, IO IO IO

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One of the most basic and common functions we programmers have to implement involves reading and writing data files. So get used to doing s...
Monday, December 15, 2014

Inheritance Part 2: That's Rather Abstract, Isn't it?

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I hope you've been browsing through Java source code outside of your own and the small samples I've provided on this site.  Reading ...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

Good Practices: Coding to the Interface

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You will sometimes hear someone recommend that you 'code to the interface'.  What the heck does that mean? Well, I'm going to ...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

I Came Here for a Good Argument

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I was inspired this morning by another post at /r/javahelp.  A guy taking a programming class got a note from his teacher indicating the tea...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Everything is Awesome... Well, with one Exception

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Let's talk about my old buddy Murphy.  I've been developing software for...  is it really a quarter of a century now?  And his law i...

Importing and Packages - Customs won't like this.

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Alright, I've been ignoring it, but the time has come to take on a fairly important issue when it comes to organizing your code.  The to...
Friday, December 5, 2014

Encapsulation - Protecting You From Yourself

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Encapsulation sounds like the central plot point of some weird science fiction movie, but actually it's a fundamental technique for impr...
Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Inheritance Part 1 - That Class is Super!

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I would like to discuss the concept of inheritance, and no, I don't mean the vase that Aunt Gladys left you in her will. When we talk ...