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Re: Please Help!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Ewing)
Wed Jan 31 14:50:01 1996
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 12:13:37 +1100
From: grege@optimation.com.au (Greg Ewing)
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
Cc: seagate@mindlink.bc.ca
> From NewsGroup_comp-lang-java Tue Jan 30 22:13 EST 1996
> From: NewsGroup_comp-lang-java
> >From: seagate@mindlink.bc.ca (Thomas Selkirk)
> Subject: Please Help!
> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 16:28:37 GMT
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> A friend of mine has written a program in Foxpro (DBase 4) and is going to be
> putting it on the internet for people to download a demo version. I will be
> writing the homepage for him and thought I would ask a couple of questions
>
> I am just learning Java and I find it quite difficult, for I have never tried
> to learn a programming language before. I know java is the direction
> everything is heading toward and also that java can produce many things to run
> on-line. Is there any program out there that will convert the foxpro program
> so it will be able to run with-in an HTML document on line... Not as a
> standalone but as a Java applet embedded with-in an HTML document. I am
> learning Java bit by bit but do not know if I will ever be as good as to
> convert a file into java to be able to make it runable on line?
>
> I've seen some of the applets and standalone documents on-line and their
> excellent! How does anyone, even with a programming language background,
> learn it so quickly and are able to put it to such good use so it is appealing
> to the eye???
>
> Thanks for your time and help!!
>
> Thomas Selkirk
> (e-mail: seagate@mindlink.bc.ca)
>
> P.S. Please post to my e-mail for I do not get to read the news groups to
> often.
>
> Thank you!
>
>
>
>
Thomas,
Persevere with Java. Because of its simplicity you should have an easier time
learning it than most of us experienced programmers had learning our first
language.
I suggest you also pick up a text on object-oriented programming. This will help
you to understand Java (the doco provided by Sun assumes a certain amount of
familiarity with OOP concepts), and once you have the basics of OOP mastered (not
terribly difficult) you should find that programming in other OOP languages is dead
easy.
Having tutored both OO and traditional (structured) programming, I have found that,
in many cases, students who are entirely new to programming, pick up OOP easier than
those with traditional programming skills. Good luck.
GREG
grege@optimation.com.au
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