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VB IS SO EASY!
Replies: 20Last Post May 7, 2005 6:14pm by atomicsquirrel99
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VB IS SO EASY!  lol... we have to make 10 out of 13 programs, any 10, and I'm done within the first 2 classes, lol!  Piece of cake! lol.  I thought this class would be a little challenging but it's way easy.  The class is all guys except christina and I... I looked around when I was done and everyone else was still working, lol... I thought for sure half the guys would be on umm that game they play... doom or something.  :p  So woo hoo I don't have to do anything next class!

Ok I'm done bragging about how easy it is now!  :p

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Is it just me or does no one know who christina is. Glad to hear it. Java's easy. It's gay. I hate the class this year. We don't make games until were finished the curriculium.

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Awwww, I can't believe you don't like Java.  It's one of my favorite languages.  

Ash, from what I hear, VB is very easy.  Hence Visual *BASIC*.

Perhaps your assignments are too easy, I would ask for something a lot harder.  I'd say an assignment wasn't worth doing if it didn't take your over 3 hours.

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lol... well yeah you don't know christina, lol, or maybe ya'll do if your in my class, but that would freak me out if you were, lol.

umm... no, i like this easy stuff, i get to just sit back and look out the window into the beautiful sky, lol... and watch the idiots that speed through the parking lot.  oh and popcap.com games.  :p

sure it's basic, but i though it'd be different, lol.

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VB is also shit

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Quote: from mephisto mortis at 9:44 pm on Sep. 13, 2004

VB is also shit

it certainly does seem like it... but heh it's an easy A class, then what the hell lol.  :p

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If you aren't learning something, the class was a waste of time :{

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Well I suppose I'm learning, I mean I've never used VB before this class, so yeah I'm learning... Plus I'm gunna do my vocab homework in there tommorrow, lol. :p  

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Quote: from sakurag at 7:07 pm on Sep. 13, 2004

Awwww, I can't believe you don't like Java.  It's one of my favorite languages.

It could very easily be the curriculium. We don't do anything fun with it. Just entering data doing some conversions. We have to learn to right code without a computer for the AP exam. Which is down right retarded in my opinion. You don't write code on paper! I've always been pretty good about most parts of html/css/javascript in that I can spout out a script on paper, but feel better doing it on a computer because I can test it. We've always been taught that it's not important to know every aspect of a language to know where to find the information fast(under 30seconds). So I make a webpage as we go along with the info and then if I don't remember something I just go to it and look it up and am on my way. But on paper I can't do that. Even the teacher doesn't like the way we have to learn it.

There's just nothing to make it interesting.

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squirell,

It sounds like you're learning very boring Java things.  Nothing really that fun.  That's too bad, Java can do a lot of fun things.  Though, now adays, I would prefer to use C# instead, since it is more Windows like, and I like writing windows apps.

Writing code on paper is usually dumb.  I've only had to do it in my very first pre-programming classes.  They even dinged you for ;'s and {}'s, which is just plain stupid, since no real computer person writes all that crap out.

Usually, in my classes, we get to write psuedocode, which makes life very easy.  

One things I like about java is this:
Code:

Object getItem(String name)
{
  return this.myCollection.get(name);
}

int addItem(Object obj, String name)
{
  return this.myCollection.add(obj, name);
}

... .
MyCollection collection = new MyCollection( );
collection.addItem(50, "anInteger");
collection.addItem("hello world", "aString");
collection.addItem(new SomeObj( ), "just SomeObj");


int x = (int)collection.getItem("anInteger");
String s = (String)collection.getItem("aString");
SomeObj so = (SomeObj)collection.getItem("justSomeObj");


I think that is real power.

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I agree. I don't even know that that code does. At the moment we're learning Math Functions & Constants. We've done variable types and simple I/O stuff. But looking through the curriculium, it's not going to get much better. Maybe once I start to get the hang of it I'll start to look at other things I can do with java.

I'm not allowed to post the website with cirriculium, but that doesn't stop me from taking a screen shot of the contents. http://www.freewebs.com/squirelplayintag2/javaC.png

No gui's like they did in basic but I missed by a year.  :(  

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You're actually learning just normal basic programming stuff.  Which I had to go through at one point in my life.  I think we all do.  It's not very fun, it's not very exciting, but it is something we all need to learn.

It will become more fun around.. I'd say Unit 30.  Heck, I'm not even sure how Java does linked lists.  I'm rather curious, since you guys don't use pointers.

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And they sing, "Oh, ain't you glad you're single?"
And that song ain't so very far from wrong.


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Actually, I looked at this 'ap' package that comes with your course, you've got predefined classes.. you cheaters.  Never mind about linked lists.

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We did a lot of the basic stuff last year. It's just different termanology. I know I have to go through it, but I was really hoping to do some guis. Maybe some games. Just overall been a disappointment.

Yea I know we cheat. We do learn to make our own classes, but "why reinvent the wheel?"

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In C/C++
For a linked list, you create a struct which contains two (or more) data members, one for the information, and one for the pointer to the next struct.

We call these structs Nodes or whatever.

You have predefined nodes.. which is kinda funny.

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I've got spurs that jingle jangle jingle.
As I go riding merrily along.
And they sing, "Oh, ain't you glad you're single?"
And that song ain't so very far from wrong.


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