I started learning Java this week for a project idea I had. I’m using the Java Tutorials bundled with the NetBeans IDE StarterKit DVD. This is the first time in learning a new language (and I’ve used C, C++, perl, python, various flavours of BASIC, PHP, and assembly on a couple different platforms) that I’ve learned about inheritance before learning about basic I/O. Well, to be fair, I know how to output things to the screen. I just don’t know how to input them. That lesson comes in the second trail, “Essential Classes,” right after Exception Handling. What a crazy world.
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Also, Japan has a different political party in power for the first time in 50 years. I’m skeptical, as I always am of polichickens as I find they’re the same the world over, but hopefully Japan doesn’t get screwed over by the promise of change as we seem to have been. All this last election did for me was reinforce the knowledge that both major political parties are different faces of the same coin, two poisons of different flavors, blah blah blah. You know, the Republicrat party.
August 31, 2009, 3:09am
