[1539] in java-interest
RE: Java learning materials
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nelson Yu)
Thu Sep 7 06:26:21 1995
From: Nelson Yu <nyu@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
To: "'java-interest@java.sun.com'" <java-interest@java.sun.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 01:11:03 -0600
JD,
>So Smalltalk and C++ would be good stepping stones. That's
>assuming you know some programming language, but not any OO >languages.
Aren't Smalltalk and C++ just a TAD too complicated to be used as =
'stepping stones' for Java? What about ANSI C and Objective-C which Java =
also borrows from?
I mean, Java takes less than a day to learn if you've done C++ =
programming and used a GUI Library. That what I love about Java, its =
much simpler than C++ with templates, multiple inheritance, overloaded =
operators and new fangled casts as shown by the STL.
Although in trying to port my CGI app (written in C++ ) over to Java, =
I've realized its not that easy, because I heavily relied on overloaded =
operators and C++'s concept of 'streams' which doesn't port well over to =
Java. Got to do some UNlearning.... :-)
P.S Other than OOP, I'd recommed learning how to use multi-threading =
properly while learning Java's syntax.
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