You learn programming by doing practical exercises, you can not learn programming by reading about it.
Ugh... So you are just saying he wings it? Completely wrong. You should practice programming, but you need a center of learning. People who just wing it like that generally have poor programming practice and hack their way through every problem. My programming skills have improved double fold from reading Head First Java. My practice and conventions I feel have nearly tripled in performance since reading Code Complete. Do you know what college courses use to teach programming? Text books. Please, if you could show me some great code by someone who never read a single book or resource, I would be greatly surprised.
Ugh... So you are just saying he wings it? Completely wrong. You should practice programming, but you need a center of learning. People who just wing it like that generally have poor programming practice and hack their way through every problem. My programming skills have improved double fold from reading Head First Java. My practice and conventions I feel have nearly tripled in performance since reading Code Complete. Do you know what college courses use to teach programming? Text books. Please, if you could show me some great code by someone who never read a single book or resource, I would be greatly surprised.
Can you link me to any good java books? I've learned pretty much all the functions, I just need to get JFrame, graphics, and some more advanced functions down.
Can you link me to any good java books? I've learned pretty much all the functions, I just need to get JFrame, graphics, and some more advanced functions down.
Yeah, that was not really what I meant. I might have phrased that quite poorly.
What I really meant was that you can't learn programming by just reading about it, you really need to do practical stuff too.
But you still need a resource either way. What you said never answered his question then. Please post an answer to the question or don't post at all. Obviously you need to apply what you learn in a book, this is quite obvious. On the other end though, you can't just learn by opening up eclipse and typing away.
EDIT: And what college courses have you taken? Unless you go to USC or something, don't act like your courses are the model of perfect.
Which way do you think is best?
Ugh... So you are just saying he wings it? Completely wrong. You should practice programming, but you need a center of learning. People who just wing it like that generally have poor programming practice and hack their way through every problem. My programming skills have improved double fold from reading Head First Java. My practice and conventions I feel have nearly tripled in performance since reading Code Complete. Do you know what college courses use to teach programming? Text books. Please, if you could show me some great code by someone who never read a single book or resource, I would be greatly surprised.
Thinking about coming a mod to simply not moderate.
Can you link me to any good java books? I've learned pretty much all the functions, I just need to get JFrame, graphics, and some more advanced functions down.
This is wrong.
Heads first java and Thinking in Java.
Thinking about coming a mod to simply not moderate.
But you still need a resource either way. What you said never answered his question then. Please post an answer to the question or don't post at all. Obviously you need to apply what you learn in a book, this is quite obvious. On the other end though, you can't just learn by opening up eclipse and typing away.
EDIT: And what college courses have you taken? Unless you go to USC or something, don't act like your courses are the model of perfect.
Thinking about coming a mod to simply not moderate.
Well yes, you use the book for reference. I already know majority of Java, I just need to learn more JFrame and graphics.