I completely agree. I had a similar experience while working on this exercise. Thanks, Ameeth
--- On Sun, 2/8/09, Maldoror <[email protected]> wrote: From: Maldoror <[email protected]> Subject: [java programming] Re: JavaBeans Excersize 2 To: "Free Java Programming Online Training Course By Sang Shin" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, February 8, 2009, 8:12 AM Not a rant, I hope, but constructive criticism... I do feel there is an issue about where the Java Beans lesson comes in the course. Having covered relatively straightforward techniques, the student is suddenly introduced to a complex architecture involving more advanced O-O techniques such as interfaces, custom event handling classes and GUI construction. None of these things had been covered in the course at this stage. Even with the advantage of having experience of doing similar tasks in Flex/actionscript, I found the homework to be quite a struggle, with so many new techniques introduced at once. It was only on coming back to this lesson after completing the rest of the course that I managed to get a reasonable understanding of what was going on. I feel it's worth considering moving this lesson to later on in this course. If other students are like me, they might then not find it quite so daunting and end up getting more out of it in the way of understanding. Chris On Feb 8, 7:21 am, miga <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 8, 3:49 am, "Harry Hartley" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have worked my way through the code of Exercise 2 of the JavaBeans Labs. I > > am not clear what the purpose of this lab is, or what is being demonstrated. > > What was the intent of exercise 2 of the JavaBeans lab? > > >http://www.javapassion.com/handsonlabs/javabeans/index.html#Exercise_2 > > > If you look at the code and the descriptions it says okay, write this class, > > okay write that class, and so on. There is never a display of data, the run > > of the application, or a demonstration of using the components created in > > the gui builder. Interesting stuff, just not sure what to do with it. > > > Furthermore, the link on the main page is to an invalid/incomplete zip file, > > the link referenced by the lab is consistent with the lab at least. > > > Please see:http://www.javapassion.com/handsonlabs/1029_javabeans.zip > > versus:http://www.javapassion.com/handsonlabs/1021_javabeans.zip > > both are supposedly for the JavaBeans Lab Exercises. 1029 includes a samples > > directory which omits several of the samples. > > > It kind of feels like whoever changed the labs for migration from Netbeans > > 5.5 to 6.X never really finished things. Am I missing something obvious? > > Yes, sure, the intent of the lab is to show you how to create your > customized components if it happens you have to do so in a future > project. > Once they are added in the paletter, you use them as any other > component of the standard palette. > And nobody impedes you to improve the component. > > As far as ranting is concerned, please keep in mind that the professor > is extremely busy and that it may happen that something is not as > perfect as you expect it, as the life is generally. So, you may ask > questions here, report bugs in the material as explained in the FAQ, > ask also on the Sun Java Netbeans forum. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaprogrammingwithpassion?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
