Xarn is an interesting fellow I like, but I find his personal blog posts dull. What makes you think anyone will want to read about some freshman's adventures with Java?
A lecturer whose course I doze through couldn't help himself but mention how much he dislikes "Enterprise Netbeans" programming tasks (of course Java is one of the main languages taught at that department) and finds more pleasure in some cleverly optimized algorithms. /prague/ is my blog
But really now, good luck, OP, for what it's worth.
The lecturers for my other modules all scoff and/or laugh with a half-serious ``Really?'' whenever they hear how little has been covered in the Java module in comparison to their own. As a result, and as they're all co-requisite modules, we end up learning Java twice.
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You want this blog to be successful? Go through SICP and post as you progress through it.
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Anonymous2010-11-23 17:11
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Oye!
OP!
The Land to Lisp is a really nice book, I know that you can find it on /prog/ (don't know exactly where though) and reading that will set you on a better path than Java will :).
After that you may wanna check out the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (you can find it through Google, it's under the CC license).
If you wanna check out a neat language you could always check out Python too! It'll probably be much easier to code in Python than in Lisp for you as it is more like Java.
Film yourself barging into the 6.001, snatching a hardcover copy of SICP from one of the students and proceeding to masturbate on it, all while loudly singing §§We Conjure the Spirits of the Computer with our Spells'' and staring The Abelson straight in the eyes. I'm sure it will be of more value than your ramblings on Java.