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Learning Journal
Personal Learning Reflections
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Personal Learning Reflections
Learning Journal --
Personal Learning
Personal Learning Journal
This is an Introduction to Java programming course.
The elements of the course were presented in a "slot
and filler" application style. The course covered many
areas of the Java programming language plus basic
programming strategies applicable to any programming
language. The style of presenting the "grammar" of
the language was helpful but difficult to see how the
programs worked together until the end of the course.
The course was very difficult for me to understand,
until the very end when classes and methods were more
thoroughly expounded. By then it was too late.
Looking back at the material it appears easy now. Where
before it was just a mess of constructors, operators
and commands, the components now all seem to make sense
together. I suggest that the begining of the course
introduce more overall program theory about how the
parts of a program fit together.
The introduction of Application Architectures, arrays,
and loops were the most important parts of the course.
The course introduced programming about geometric
figures, reading and displaying card pairs, and a Word
Dictionary style database. All are very important to
the field of computers. For the begining programmer,
none of the material introduced was "trivial", as it was
all applicable to work in programming.
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