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Mark Richardson wrote:Without directly addressing your question, I will comment on your school's decision to utilize JavaFX. I wouldn't go as far as to say that it's a "dead technology," but I would expect any program geared towards teaching new developers to at least use technologies that are somewhat current / in-use.
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Knute Snortum wrote:
Mark Richardson wrote:Without directly addressing your question, I will comment on your school's decision to utilize JavaFX. I wouldn't go as far as to say that it's a "dead technology," but I would expect any program geared towards teaching new developers to at least use technologies that are somewhat current / in-use.
Hmm. So if you want to create a GUI in Java, what do you do? I think it's great that this course teaches JavaFX instead of Swing.
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Andrew Linton Bradford wrote:
I have course mentors, but they don't do code review. My first thought about that was, "How can you not provide code review for programming courses?" I can't turn something in before it compiles, so my only source of help has been CodeRanch and Google.
I'm also curently following a informatica course and althoud I can turn to my teachers with questions, they would never rewrite my code or give me the solution, they would at most point me in the direction of where to look for a solution, which is mostly javadocs, so if possible I try not to boughter them, and ask my questions here or also search google.
Several elements of these projects seem to exist for the express purpose of stumping me. One of the classes, which is supposed to populate a JavaFX tableview, is abstract and has no subclasses. I am still trying to understand why. Why would you make a class abstract unless you had subclasses in mind? They also talk about creating associations between objects which sounds more easily done with a relational database.
Andrew
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Daniel Demesmaecker wrote:
Me to, I don't understand Mark's remark. Javafx is the most current.
Mark Richardson wrote: I know someone in recruiting who keeps me up to date on market requirements as far as Java related technologies are concerned in the United States. I just never come across openings which list JavaFX as a requirement. I might see Angular, React, JSP, JSF, and other web-related UI stuff... but not very many companies are looking for JavaFX.
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Andrew Linton Bradford wrote:Just a warning, this is mostly me whining. I am sort of wavering between feeling dumb and thinking my school's courses just aren't effective.
Andrew Linton Bradford wrote:I have been really struggling with these projects, mentioned in my other posts, and I am starting to feel like they have given me something impossible for my level of coding experience.
I don't feel like the courses adequately prepared me for them.
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Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:Thick UIs
Mark Richardson wrote:Hi Jeanne,
I haven't been exposed to this "thick/thin" terminology. I am assuming that a "thick" client/UI is basically a pc-based client/UI, whereas a thin-client is web-based?
Mark Richardson wrote:However, I have come across the Oracle JDBC "Thin" driver. Never understood what that means, exactly - perhaps someone can elaborate
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Knute Snortum wrote:Hmm. So if you want to create a GUI in Java, what do you do? I think it's great that this course teaches JavaFX instead of Swing.
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