Java is Ova!
That’s right! Today I had the Java final. It was brutal. But a realization came to me as I studied: “If push comes to shove, I could be a Java Developer.” There is nothing particularly difficulty about java, it’s just that 6 weeks can be a short time to go from zero to polymorphism and inheritance. I found that procedural programming came much easier to me in the first 3 weeks and that object oriented development takes a little getting used to.
I had failed Pascal in high school because I could not figure out how looping statements worked, but that was just a mental block since loops are probably the simples control structures. Loops were not the problem this time around, but passing methods between classes and calling constructors was. Luckily by the time of the final (today) I had an “Aha” moment after looking at much code and figuring out why it didn’t compile in my mind before. Hopefully I didn’t bomb the final… it was pretty hard.
So now that I have a base in Java what am I going to do with it? I’m not sure. I know I can screen developers on a more advanced level and know what they are talking about at least in the basic levels. More importantly though, is that my initial fear of java in this program has been replaced with a confidence that if need be, I can do it.
(I got a B+) By the way…
