On the Journey Back
So after Agile 2006, I'm slowly working my skills back up to par. I'm hoping to use this as a forum to discuss projects and tools.Obviously I've started with Java, since I spent most of my formative years (read: college) with the language, but I'm looking expand skills and try new things.
But, of course, where do I start?
I've downloaded Eclipse and the newest release of Java. I'm not sure what projects to start with. I was on SourceForge.net, but I couldn't do a descent search for Java projects. So I'm left with an empty editor.
Give me your feedback and ideas. Thanks.
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1 Comments:
When was the last time you saw Java? 1.2? 1.3? 1.4? I recommend finding some kind of "What's new in Java?" because each release has had one key thing that you really ought to know. 1.3, for example, had dynamic method invocation and 1.4 (I think) had Exceptions wrapping Exceptions. These are things that strongly affect how you design programs at the low level with Java.
Other than that, grab JUnit 4.1 and start test-driving something. Maybe grab an open source project and start trying to add a feature or two to it. Great practice.
Good luck.
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