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Yeah - I can still feel the frustration, annoyance and embarrassment of my first days programming - like anything else, it just takes persistence and it gets easier. Our comments were in no way aimed...

They say that managing programmers is like herding cats.

Norm has reminded me - I must do the laundry today. I promise to hang it out of sight ;)

Thanks - it is important - it's basically why we make time in a busy schedule of being nagged and feeling guilty to come here and give someone a 'eureka!' moment... oh wait, is that just me?

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Possibly. When you're starting out, there's so much to remember that, if you're not sure what you're looking for, you can quite easily miss the obvious.


This is an important question, and I...

Hmm. Comparing something with itself is always going to give 'true' so there's not much point actually doing it - as in:if (s1.equals(s1)) {
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else if (s2.equals(s2)){