I wanted to thank Mark Dexter for a clear and concise tutorial. Computer tutorials are, by their nature, pretty dry stuff. By keeping them short and to the point, it was much easier to get through. Also, being a busy person, it was often that a couple weeks might go by between tutorials. By keeping them short, it was easy to keep track of where I had been, and what had been covered. Also, there was a good balance between new material and repetition, which is very important. Good Job!
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Same for me: thank you very much for your fantastic Java-tutorials. I very much enjoyed them and learned a lot. Especially the TDD impressed me and I stressed this approach to my colleagues when I forwarded the tutorials.
To explain OO a bit further including inheritance I would suggest introducing an abstract class Medium as superclass of Book and a new class Film. It hosts the title of the book, film or any other medium that can be loaned plus getter- and setter-method as well as the person that has loaned it. The Film-class has a String-field describing the director and an int-field for its length in contrast to the author and the number of pages of the Book-class.
If you like this idea I can send you a UML-diagram and/or the Eclipse-project-archive.
Thanks again
Cord
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I wanted to thank Mark Dexter for a clear and concise tutorial. Computer tutorials are, by their nature, pretty dry stuff. By keeping them short and to the point, it was much easier to get through. Also, being a busy person, it was often that a couple weeks might go by between tutorials. By keeping them short, it was easy to keep track of where I had been, and what had been covered. Also, there was a good balance between new material and repetition, which is very important. Good Job!
Dear Mark,
Same for me: thank you very much for your fantastic Java-tutorials. I very much enjoyed them and learned a lot. Especially the TDD impressed me and I stressed this approach to my colleagues when I forwarded the tutorials.
To explain OO a bit further including inheritance I would suggest introducing an abstract class Medium as superclass of Book and a new class Film. It hosts the title of the book, film or any other medium that can be loaned plus getter- and setter-method as well as the person that has loaned it. The Film-class has a String-field describing the director and an int-field for its length in contrast to the author and the number of pages of the Book-class.
If you like this idea I can send you a UML-diagram and/or the Eclipse-project-archive.
Thanks again
Cord