im taking ap computer science (java programming) at my high school and im wondering if anybody here experienced with it has any tips so i can succede in that class?? liek any good books etc.

Spelling helps. Nothing will piss you off more than writing 100 lines of code and going through it 10 times to realize you forgot to capitalize System on line 32.

Yes, What I recommend is that you pay attention and read the APCS book if you need any further help. That book is very useful, written by ICT. You should learn a lot. Tell me personally if you are having any problems with JAVA programming.

If I were you I would do the same thing I did. Never go to class and when you do go fuck around the entire time. Teachers also love it when you write an essay on how the spork is the single most important item in the American Economy instead of writing an essay on the diffrent types of sorts and which was most useful at what times. (I swear to god I did this and finished the class with a B average)

i keep forgetting to put ; at the end of each line of code :doh: , soo fucking annoying lol

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Maybe you should try Visual Basic then :P

 

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y do schools teach Java tho? C is a way superior language..

when i did my degree course they taught java first, we were recommended the book java in a nutshell by O'Reilly ive got it and its a good reference guide, if you get stuck with anything just post in here and someone might be able to help.

 

and for all you ppl that think that C or any other random language is better, no one cares, leave your flame starting to the flame forum, he wants help on java because thats what hes getting taught not your opinion on which language is better the end.

im going to get one of the books you guys suggested for refrence, thanks

 

how many ppl in here know java cuz ill be here alot asking for help on various projects that i have to do. i always read posts where people argue over c++ or vb....

They teach java because there is no C or C++ AP exam.

What retards :shifty:

 

Especially since the first few years are all java apps, you never get to do applets or anything useful for a while.

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kamikazi']im going to get one of the books you guys suggested for refrence, thanks

 

how many ppl in here know java cuz ill be here alot asking for help on various projects that i have to do. i always read posts where people argue over c++ or vb....

 

I know Java.

Since no other better reasons have been given for java to be taught, I will give a good one. JAVA is a strong language, the only reason it is not the strongest is because it has a slow run-time engine because it has to convert everything to your native operating system languag first. The plus side to the run-time being slow is that you can think of it like this. You write one program that abuses them by popping up tons of consoles and it can be distributed and bug anyone on any operating system. I personally prefer C++ due to the strength and the possibilities. JAVA is an awesome language to learn, thats why I know it. Another awesome thing about JAVA is that JAVA can be used in web design unlike C++ :-\. Applets are a blast! Visual Basic can also be used on the internet but JAVA was made to be a language that is "Universal" in many aspects.

  sleepingjew said:

Since no other better reasons have been given for java to be taught, I will give a good one. JAVA is a strong language, the only reason it is not the strongest is because it has a slow run-time engine because it has to convert everything to your native operating system languag first. The plus side to the run-time being slow is that you can think of it like this. You write one program that abuses them by popping up tons of consoles and it can be distributed and bug anyone on any operating system. I personally prefer C++ due to the strength and the possibilities. JAVA is an awesome language to learn, thats why I know it. Another awesome thing about JAVA is that JAVA can be used in web design unlike C++ :-\. Applets are a blast! Visual Basic can also be used on the internet but JAVA was made to be a language that is "Universal" in many aspects.

ya java compiles on a virtual machine

  sleepingjew said:

Another awesome thing about JAVA is that JAVA can be used in web design unlike C++ :-\.

 

CGI binaries can't be written in cpp? I know what you mean though. :naughtyd:

All languages have their purposes. Java can do almost everything C/C++ can do, and vice versa. Of course there is always lowlevel things that Java will have a hard time doing, but this goes the other way too, there are things that lowerlevel languages would have a hard time doing as well.

 

So don't let people discourage you.

my advice, don't fuck around. I took the AB exam with java and blew it big time. Be careful with passing variables... I think it's all by reference in java, but I can't recall.

 

And for some reason, pay attention to the marine biology case study... That's really important too.

oh yea ive herd about the marine case study.. the test has a huge part on it. can anyone give me details about that? (like what it is and why it is soo important) my teacher says that shes not even going to teach us it because she never has ignored it for the last few year's and most people passed the exam

.java files dont compile on the JVM... they get compiled using a compiler into byte codes, and then get interpreted by the JVM

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kamikazi']oh yea ive herd about the marine case study.. the test has a huge part on it. can anyone give me details about that? (like what it is and why it is soo important) my teacher says that shes not even going to teach us it because she never has ignored it for the last few year's and most people passed the exam

The case study was pretty stupid, it is pretty much just a compilation of everything you have been taught all put into one program with a graphical user interface.