Re: Need some advice

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil,

I probably should restate the "the basics of programming that you use 
every day in RPG will serve you well" then.

What I meant was that things like variables, arrays, loops, calculations 
and many of things things we are familiar with in a procedural language 
are also present in Java so making the transition from a "for loop" in 
RPG to a "for loop" in Java wasn't that difficult for me (for example). 
Where I had issues was in designing classes and methods that were truly 
objects.  I was doing some heavy mental gymnastics in thinking in 
objects and I STILL have issues when I design classes as to what should 
be an abstract class vs an interface vs a "regular" class.  I move more 
comfortably between RPG and Java now but I still trip over the object 
stuff from time to time.

So it was the very basic "programming concepts" that were easy (to me at 
least) to move to Java.  Designing an object that contained both data 
and processes for managing the data within the object was the hard jump 
for me to make.

Pete


Phil Kestenbaum wrote:
> Pete, How would you describe the RPG background as serving well in
> object oriented programming? When I was studying this, I instinctively
> was trying to make this connection, unsuccessfully.
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> Thank you,
> Phil
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