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I'm stuck all week on an advanced oo concepts course. It's all in smalltalk, which is something that I've never previously had the pleasure of.

It might as well be Esperanto. Talk about a counterintuitive syntax. It took me 10 minutes to puzzle out how to write a loop...
 
And Loop and if no longer good, sigh.
 
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I'm stuck all week on an advanced oo concepts course. It's all in smalltalk, which is something that I've never previously had the pleasure of...

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I was force-fed OO back in the early 90's and went into it kicking and screaming. 16 years later I'll have to say I appreciate the benefits. I've had to learn some creative methods of getting around occasional performance issues but that was a small price to pay & probably unique to our applications.

Never found a use for Smalltalk itself, though.

Good luck with it.
 
I make a living as an assembler programmer. I write java or C++ perhaps once a year at most.

Advanced OO is about as much use as a chocolate teapot to me! Beats looking at hex dumps though...
 
I do most of my PHP work using OO. I'm a big fan, as it makes code reusability that much easier. I may not have much class, but I've got a class for just about everything! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
I learned a bit of Assembly in college, along with Java and C, picked up PHP, HTML, Perl and BASH (not to mention some minor Tcl/Tk editing) scripting on my own. Now days, I do most of my work in InstallScript code sifting. Not the most glamorous of jobs, but it certainly gets the bills paid.

I had the most fun with Assembly in college. I think that was because the coding provided immediate results on the hardware that we worked with. That and the pace of the course wasn't ridiculously fast.

In comparison, the Java course I had was brutal. It was a course that was described as not needing any computer knowledge to take, but the reality of it was if you didn't have any prior programming classes you would have failed, because the pace was so fast that the average person would not have had time to absorb the information given. We started with the basics of computers and by the end of the semester we were building full GUI standalone programs. Still despite the brutal pace of the class, it was fun, but it helped me realize that being a programmer in a production environment was not my cup of tea. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Not the Sun one perchance was it?
I took that last year. A couple of my peers on the course had no oo experience at all, were lost by noon on day 1, and never caught up.

I've written 1 program in java since then.
We still do it all in BAL...
 
yeah, it was Sun's Java. UF had the good fore sight to see it as the correct Java to teach (this was before the Sun MS law suit). I was a burgeoning Linux learner at that time, and always made sure my assignments worked on Windows and Linux prior to turning them in; something you couldn't do with MS's JVM.

I've written precisely 0 Java apps/progs since I completed that class. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 
We attended Sun's "roll-out" of their teaming with Alias/Wavefront's "Maya" in O-Town... asked 'em if/when they were gonna port it to Linux. I may as well have worn th' horns onna OUTSIDE of me skull...
 
well, now it's AutoDesk & Alias, and you can get a Linux port of Maya. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
So we've seen. But the "need" has passed. But it may still be useful from a buisness standpoint... and a WHOLE lot more affordable now!
 
RPG Baby!

I don't trust code that doesn't have column-specific syntax

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I'll even throw in a GOTO some times to make whoever follows me cringe. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/pukeface.gif
 
Ha, GOTO. Had forgotton about that. Hope you properly reference it. LOL
 
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