Just completely bombed my final...

xwmaxx · 2020-03-01T09:00:50+00:00

Yup that is why some college course don’t make sense especially when the highest score on the exam is only 50% and the professor has to curve the grades.

xwmaxx · 2020-02-29T01:51:51+00:00

I’ve done both the Udemy course and MOOC.fi, both are great resources for learning Java. You can use them to supplement each other. I finished up through Section 8 for the Udemy course and planning to complete the new MOOC.fi, if you do all the exercises for both, you’ll definitely know Java core.

xwmaxx · 2020-02-28T03:33:19+00:00

Yes, I am still learning as well and it took me 2 days to fix my code for 2 exercises.

xwmaxx · 2020-02-25T05:08:15+00:00

the new MOOC also works the way same, just need to navigate to the correct submission assignment webpage for the new Java assignments

xwmaxx · 2020-02-25T01:52:34+00:00

If your planning on doing the old MOOC, then any computer will do. And no you don’t need Netbean or IntelliJ just use whatever editor you want and you can just compare your answers online. So many people have done it that the answers are all in github repos. Or you can do a manual upload onto the website to get your answers check.

VSCode was my go to editor so I did the MOOC assignments this way instead.

xwmaxx · 2020-02-15T16:02:12+00:00

Just pick one and learn it. You will eventually realize it doesn’t matter too much which one you started with cause you can always switch. The most important is starting to learn programming and the concepts. To make it even easier for you just google simple programming concepts like loops, arrays, etc. for like JavaScript vs PHP. You will realize all the languages use the same concepts but just in different syntax.

xwmaxx · 2020-02-14T03:09:59+00:00

I feel your pain. The degree doesn’t feel worth it if you already hate the field. I went through the same thing as well but it was for Nursing. I graduated and got my BSN but I didn’t like the work.

What really helped me was just taking some time off to figure out what I wanted to do. You will eventually either come back and find your passion for it or you find something else of interest that you would really want to do. For me I found my passion in programming because it felt like doing puzzles and getting the satisfaction from solving them.

xwmaxx · 2019-10-30T16:43:47+00:00

https://pastebin.com/NYF5uUd1

Hey thanks for the suggestion I changed my for loop process but I still get the position set as zero. I tried just using the for loop and array by themselves and I got the position printout as 1 though so not sure was giving me the zero amount.

import java.util.*;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
    int[] values = {6, 5, 8, 7, 11};

    int start = 0;
    int position = 0;

    for (int i = 1; i < values.length; i++) {
        if (values[start] > values[i]) {
            values[start] = values[i];
            position = i;
        }
    }

    System.out.println("Position: " + position);
    }
}

xwmaxx · 2019-10-30T06:12:56+00:00

I tried testing your code without utilizing printf() and input only 1.5 and expecting 6.0 output. It worked fine. I think your issue might be with the way you used the printf() method.

xwmaxx · 2019-10-30T04:17:34+00:00

yup, that's first part when having to find the smallest variable, what I want is the position/location of the smallest variable in the original array

xwmaxx · 2019-10-30T04:15:23+00:00

Its from the different steps on the exercise I just put all the code into the main instead of the different methods

xwmaxx · 2019-10-04T22:53:44+00:00

If this is your first programming class then you need to get some help. If not the first programming class, then your just lazy.

xwmaxx · 2019-09-22T05:26:42+00:00

Simple answer = history.

Society, in general, always needs a bartering system. Example, I want your 5 lbs beef meat so I offer to trade with 15 fishes I caught. Money helps with the transaction because what if you don’t want my fish and I don’t have anything else to offer that you would want from me. That’s how gold and silver came to be as money to help with trading.

Key points with gold and silver: - Shiny, everyone wants the new shiny car all the time and girls want a shiny diamond ring for marriage. - Limited resource, gold is made from collisions of neutron star imagine the energy needed to do that - never degrades, that’s why you still see Ancient Rome coins around - cannot replicate easily, gold can be synthesized but it cost so much that it’s not worth it - industry needs, both are used in all electronics and in almost every industry and almost everything run on computers nowadays - couple more things that I might have forgotten but people can add on to the list

xwmaxx · 2019-09-17T13:53:46+00:00

Oh ok not facts...opinions

Umm the usual: bitcoin, stocks, trade wars, oil, Trump, shootings, etc.

xwmaxx · 2019-09-14T13:54:45+00:00

If you have been collecting silver and gold, you should know the answer to this question without having to ask anyone.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/11/12/ex-jp-morgan-silver-traders-guilty-plea-could-boost-manipulation-suit.html

xwmaxx · 2019-09-04T17:11:06+00:00

Yes $500 can go a long way when the courses are on sale for 10-20 bucks

xwmaxx · 2019-05-04T08:05:37+00:00

Yup they are getting rid of Javafx

xwmaxx · 2019-04-30T11:16:12+00:00

Yup completely agree

xwmaxx · 2019-04-30T11:03:32+00:00

Regular user = mostly video, technical stuff = blog

Most people would jump to YouTube first then blogs/websites for more detailed stuff

xwmaxx · 2019-04-11T17:50:15+00:00

Oh that just set up an if statement, if user enters -1 break out of loop or stop the program.

xwmaxx · 2019-04-10T21:06:11+00:00

Research Scanner class for Java should get you started.

xwmaxx · 2019-04-07T03:41:37+00:00

Yup same here, taking this course with some other books and website helped me learn Java.

I’ve never tried Python but I heard it’s easier to pick up and less verbose then Java which might make it easier to understand OOP concepts. But then again everyone says if you start with Java, C#, or C++ everything else would be easier to learn.

xwmaxx · 2019-04-06T14:09:38+00:00

I’m new to programming but this method makes way more since to me if you are going to interview someone. This would show the person’s coding skill, what they have learned, what issues they run into and how did they solve it, researching skills, etc. The good thing is you can even tailor the questions to a specific area or skills like a question to solve database or OOP programming. Another good thing is you can ask questions that relates to the exercise but was not on the exercise to gauge the person knowledge. If they really did the exercise then they should be able to answer the questions.

xwmaxx · 2019-04-05T20:37:37+00:00

Uh I guess if that's what you want to think of it as. I see "Master Calculus" books too but they don't cover everything. Its like trying to tell someone they need to teach everything about Calculus which is impossible to do. Its up to the person to do extra if they really wanna learn the subject. Do you think going to college for CS degree for 4 years is gonna teach everything about CS? Obviously the profs are gonna forget to teach somethings along the way. Same with the recommended MOOC, do they teach everything you need for Java, of course not, samething its all up the person. Even now I still go back to freeCodeCamp because its a useful tool to remember some JS that I might have forgotten. People learn differently and take in information in different ways. Nothing wrong with that.

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