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Here I go. I’ve been a teacher for 19 years and am ready for a new adventure. I’m making a mid-career change to coding. My goals are to study predictive analytics and machine learning. Python seems like the reasonable best place to start. But, I’m going to start with Java.
I spent close to two weeks with Bloomtech, but didn’t feel that the boot camp route was right for me. So here we go!
- Started with Beginning Programming for Dummies, 6th ed.
Continued studying with the book above.
- Started with Beginning Programming for Dummies, 6th ed.
Also, I got this book about building text adventures with Java. I chose this book because when I was at BloomTech for 2 weeks, they were using something very similar. I’m so glad I spent $10 bucks on this rather than go passed my free trial and be on the hook for $40k.
- The Little Book of Java Adventure Game Programming: Learn Object Oriented Programming–advanced coding techniques.
Today I learned that Object-Oriented Programming can also be referred to as Class-Oriented Programming.
- Got the syntax down. { and ;
- Methods have a Type, Name, and Parameter
- .In Object-Oriented Programming similar data can be grouped together and separate from other data.
Rest Day
Love Roadmaps
Great Youtube video about roadmap above https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE3LyYW-AHQ
Another great roadmap. https://roadmap.sh/java
Today I watched Bro Code code the Snake Game with Java. I watched it at the youtube link below. I also followed along with IntelliJ. Only made it halfway through the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI6e6qjJ8JQ
Today I understood the difference between constructors and methods. They look alike and have similar syntax, but constructors don’t return anything. They work in the background to prepare the game for user input.
Finished coding along with BroCode the Java Snake game.
- The graphics take a lot of coding. It seems like more than the actual code to run the game
- I could understand 80-90 percent of what he was doing. I finished the repetitive things before he did.
- Still, there is so much to learn.
- Lots of For Loops. ( i, i > 0, i++)
Helped my wife.
Way too lazy. Bad Jared
- Started with OSSU Computer Science repo on github. https://github.com/ossu/computer-science
- Installed atom.io and ran a basic python program.