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Rank order and justify the five most important things you learned in this unit.

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   Ryan Bridglal said...
   10:49 pm - April 5th, 2009

   1.Not everything can easily be used with multiple applications. I’m talking about creating a java project with the Netbeans IDE and then trying to open it with Eclipse. You can’t just copy the files over and expect it to automatically run. It has to be imported into the program.

   2.Creating GUI applications are not as hard as they appear to be; especially when you use the IDE to do most of the work for you.

   3.There’s always a short and quick way to perform an operation. I’m referring to math.min to locate the smallest of multiple numbers. You could write out a few lines of code, using the greater, equal or less than signs; to determine the smallest of a group of numbers. But Math.Min, does it all for you.

   4.You have to use multiple resources when learning a programming language. The book is great, but it does not have 100 percent clean and clear logical code. I read through the whole thing and the way the book was composed, they assume you know what they are talking about. It’s a little difficult for the beginner programmer to learn from this text. It’s more of a reference manual and you have to have multiple resources to learn from. Another great place to find help is through google.

   5. You have to find a compiler you are comfortable with, or become comfortable with everything the team you are working with, is using. It’s great to master one program, but it does not get you anywhere. If you master multiple tools, you’ll be able to adapt to more situations a lot easier. I use Netbeans to cracnk out my applications and I use eclipse to help me learn through the process; because Eclipse automatically provides solutions and shows you through your code.