Thread: Hello!

Hi guys! (And ladies.)

I'm a Computer Science student at USF and am currently taking a class on program design centering around Java. I have very little experience with it, but I'm doing fairly well. Mostly though, I've been having issues because I keep asking questions the professor can't answer. He doesn't seem particularly well versed in Java, and I keep trying to go beyond the limitations of the class and hitting walls.

So let me preface this by saying I'm not looking for help on homework, as homework isn't assigned, or on labs, since we only have about an hour in which to do them. I'm really just looking to get a better understanding of the workings of Java.

I'm sure many questions I ask are going to be very obvious to you guys (Hopefully so I can get quick answers ! ) but I'll try to make sure no one has posted asking the same question.

Hopefully I can get a better understanding of Java, and if it gets solid enough, maybe even begin to help others! Who knows?

tl;dr : College student, not looking for homework help, just looking to learn as much about Java as possible due to lackluster professor.

That's what I'm hoping! Already found a few slapmyselfintheface obvious answers in some other people's questions.

So far I've learned a ton, the major slap in the face was realizing that you can't simply == strings. >.> took me a few hours to figure that one out.

I feel like my biggest problem so far is coming up with elegant solutions. I manage to get everything to work and spit out my code faster than most, but other people's seem much simpler. I guess it will come with time. But it genuinely is a lot of fun, I recently made a rock paper scissors program and even though it's completely lame, I can't keep myself from playing with it.