Got to say, always dreamed of taking up java coding so I can one day get into game design, so far I am being beaten by that very code XD, but got to keep on fighting and keep at it. Though I want to compare notes with people when it comes to their most difficult java coding attempted, cause at this current time for me is conway's game of life
Most difficult Java programming attempted so far. (Undergraduate college student)
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Eh, that's not too bad. You don't even need a 2D array to represent it, if I recall correctly, it's just a simple 1D one with some not hard logic operating on it. Haven't looked at it in a few years, but I'm fairly sure that's it.GeeksUtopia said:
As for me, I guess it was the Java EE assignment I had last year - it was a web application (deployed in Glassfish) that used Spring for data access/storage and also had to communicate with a .NET application using SOAP. I won't necessarily say it was hard, and yet, I would have struggled on my own, mainly because the assignment wasn't for a single person but a group, also I had not enough familiarity with Java EE at the time. Eh, haven't touched it since, so it's not that great now, but anyway. I guess the most frustratingly hard part was...Netbeans. The damn thing caused us more trouble than the code and the two applications taken together - oh such joys, some of the best examples:
- when you click Build and Deploy, Netbeans starts compiling all .java files. But for some reason decided that it needed to compile one file A (let's call it that) but file A required a bunch of auto-generated files which were not present and wouldn't be until file B was compiled later. So in order to get it to work, we had to have the auto-generated files there, so it would compile file A using the auto-generates, get to file B and re-generate them.
- also, I recall Netbeans had a very weird quarrel with SVN at one point - if it had the SVN plug-in, but you didn't use it to do something (say, if I used Tortoise SVN) it would automatically revert any changes done. Also it did that when it was compiling the code, so it failed because it reverted some files as it was compiling for some stupid reason. And yeah, the reason was so stupid that it went out by itself, so we never knew why
- for an even stupider reason, Netbeans would sometimes read the WSDL, generate the files needed from it and then use an old version of the compiled files. It randomly did it, too, but at least after few frustrating hours trying to find out why the code failed where there was absolutely no change or reason to fail, we found this out and it didn't catch us as off-guard the next times. We still lost a total of several hours by the end of it, just by this issue alone, though, but could have been worse.
No wander my group collectively agreed that Netbeans is perfect for cross-platform development - it fails as badly on all of them.
But other than Netbeans, the task wasn't that bad. So I don't think I've really had that difficult of an experience with Java. Yet.
I think my most difficult Java programming was at work, updating a test harness program for some our software. I had to redo a little bit of the GUI and link it up to a chemistry API in a way that meant the functions could be tested. It was pretty hard to understand due to the sheer amount of code more than anything else, there were at least 10,000 lines in there.
Anyhow, just keep at it...programming gets easier (allegedly) with practice. And it's one of those things where you don't really realise how much better you've got until you take a look back at what you were doing a year ago.
Anyhow, just keep at it...programming gets easier (allegedly) with practice. And it's one of those things where you don't really realise how much better you've got until you take a look back at what you were doing a year ago.
-phew- looks like i got a long ways to go ^^;. Still having problems with that game of life, got it to generate cells, though the cell that is generated moves up one and to the left by one. and every other cell generation fills all cells below it and all cells to the right of it XD. It generates, just not as expectedDoPo said: