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Though it's seldom discussed in technical books today, I find it helpful to use a concept called active recall to learn without exercises. Just pause a moment, or turn the page before attempting to write the example code. Writing variations thereof also helps. The thing to avoid is simply a copy and paste challenge which is simply a waste of time.
— May 25, 2019 04:41AM
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Justin
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The GUI - UGH! Why do GUI editors never work? Why do tutorials rely so much on GUI editors? These are the great metaphysical questions.
I will have to try loading the code from GitHub to see how my *auto-generated* code failed to allow the Window Builder to show any components, properties, or anything really.
— Apr 18, 2019 04:29AM
I will have to try loading the code from GitHub to see how my *auto-generated* code failed to allow the Window Builder to show any components, properties, or anything really.
Justin
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My guilty pleasure is that I'm enjoying what feels like a programming book for children. I just made a trivial GUI app in a few lines of code on a Java REPL, which I didn't know existed 10 minutes ago, so to speak.
— Apr 10, 2019 03:32AM
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So far the book assumes you know next to nothing of programming let alone the syntax of C-based languages like Java, so it's a bit of a slow start for an experienced programmer.
The exercises are smoothly increasing in complexity, which is one of the most important qualities in a book to learn another language.
The instructions to setup the programming environment worked flawlessly.
— Apr 08, 2019 03:57AM
The exercises are smoothly increasing in complexity, which is one of the most important qualities in a book to learn another language.
The instructions to setup the programming environment worked flawlessly.
