What a great series of tutorials. I've done the TotalBeginners and Persistence tutorials, and they just exactly what I needed after reading through the tutorial on the Sun Java site. All the way through I was sending thank you vibes to you.
I'm a musician interested in creating a program for a new kind of metronome. My only programming experience (also self-taught) is with Visual Basic in the mid 90s, when I made a similar program. Now I want to provide a new version on the Internet. What impresses me is that so many resources are available in open-source software, including instructional materials of which your tutorials are a very outstanding example. Thus, a musician like myself, without professional training, can write software. This seems to me to be quite amazing, a wonderful development second only to the Internet itself.
There was just one thing that didn't work for me. I've pointed the "attach source" reference to the src.zip file in the JDK 1.6 library, but when I attempt to open the source code with the "Open declaration" command, I get a page saying, "Source not found." I wonder if my src.zip is corrupted.
Anyway, thanks again.
With very best wishes,
Daniel
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Hi Daniel. I'm very pleased to hear that the tutorials have been valuable for you. I don't know why the source attachment didn't work for you. When you go to the Libraries tab on the Java Build Path (Project/Properties), expand JRE System and expand rt.jar, does it show the correct src.zip file? If everything looks good and it still doesn't work, I guess you could try re-installing the JDK.
Thanks for the positive feedback, and good luck with your metronome project. Mark
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Hello Mark,
What a great series of tutorials. I've done the TotalBeginners and Persistence tutorials, and they just exactly what I needed after reading through the tutorial on the Sun Java site. All the way through I was sending thank you vibes to you.
I'm a musician interested in creating a program for a new kind of metronome. My only programming experience (also self-taught) is with Visual Basic in the mid 90s, when I made a similar program. Now I want to provide a new version on the Internet. What impresses me is that so many resources are available in open-source software, including instructional materials of which your tutorials are a very outstanding example. Thus, a musician like myself, without professional training, can write software. This seems to me to be quite amazing, a wonderful development second only to the Internet itself.
There was just one thing that didn't work for me. I've pointed the "attach source" reference to the src.zip file in the JDK 1.6 library, but when I attempt to open the source code with the "Open declaration" command, I get a page saying, "Source not found." I wonder if my src.zip is corrupted.
Anyway, thanks again.
With very best wishes,
Daniel
Hi Daniel. I'm very pleased to hear that the tutorials have been valuable for you. I don't know why the source attachment didn't work for you. When you go to the Libraries tab on the Java Build Path (Project/Properties), expand JRE System and expand rt.jar, does it show the correct src.zip file? If everything looks good and it still doesn't work, I guess you could try re-installing the JDK.
Thanks for the positive feedback, and good luck with your metronome project. Mark