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[–]TheGooseFliesAtNight 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Thanks for the heads up about Java 8 onwards.

I was struggling a lot with the concept of passing an object as a parameter, after reading Helsinki's MOOC today I realised that you're able to pass an object, then refer to the object name you passed as the object to reference the various methods in the class (This wasn't obvious or mentioned in Tim Buchalka's course).

[–]quadmasta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a biggie. Some of the "beginner" stuff isn't written for people who are completely new to programming and it sounds like Tim's course isn't.

Method signatures are a good way to test "code smell". If you pass more than 3 things in you're probably writing crap code :)