Java Glossary : homework

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If you have a difficult homework assignment various parts of the Java glossary may be helpful to you.

getting started. How to get your first program working. This mostly concerns installing the compiler and runtime and getting your first HelloWorld program working.
newsgroups. How to ask questions in the comp.lang.java newsgroups in a way that is most likely to generate a useful answer. If you simply post your homework assignment verbatim, people will slap you senseless. Don't even dare directly quote so much as a phrase from it!
tackling. How to tackle difficult problems by breaking them down into simpler ones.
Patricia Shanahan's advice for beginning Java programmers.
The Java Gotchas. This will warn you about all the tricky things in the Java language and standard libraries, the places newbies always fall on their noses.

It is of course possible to bamboozle or pay someone to do your homework assignments for you. This, in my view is a waste of money. You paid the school to teach you, and now you are subverting their efforts and wasting years of your own time. You would have been wiser to spend the money you spent on tuition for a vacation to Jamaica. I'm sure you would enjoy it much more. Further, it will be dreadfully embarrassing if you get your diploma, your first job, and your first assigment and then have no clue how to start. Everyone will expect you to know what you are doing. There will be no one to help you.

People having trouble with Java homework assignments are often are attempting to use history-style study techniques to learn Java. They won't work.

In Java every new thing depends on thoroughly understanding everything that came before. If you do that, progress is steady and easy. If try to skip over something, all of a sudden everything becomes impossible Greek.

The only way to recover is to back up, and start reading what does make sense, and step by step, working the examples, not just reading, take a second run at it.

When you hit the roadblock the second time, all will be crystal clear, and you will wonder what all the fuss was about. What did this used to seem so hard?

Trust me on this. I used to teach in university. None of my students ever failed.

The temptation is to panic and try to race ahead. Sorry, but it just won't work, no matter how far behind you are, or how close the deadline. You have textbooks, course notes, examples, CDs, tutors, online FAQs. Use these resources, backing up as far as necessary to pick up those points you missed the first time through.

Just put on a pot of high-quality coffee, unplug the phone, and do a burn starting early in the day and staying up as late as a you possibly can, ordering a large pizza when you get hungry. Even pros have to do this when the get lost in some tricky new API.

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