I don't know why, but I felt like starting a thread where I can rant incoherantly about all of my programming assignments and how stupidly, well...stupid they are.

My current one involves the cult classic game Asteroids, but painfully crappily reproduced using Java and AWT. Among my tasks is to replace the Array with ArrayList, convert the AWT GUI to Swing, replace the Enumeration with Iterator and somehow improve the already crap game. I hate Java.

It also turns out that a friend's PC that I built for him in February is now coming up with SMART failures when it boots (basically the hard drive is dying for those of you who don't speak geek). This is after the original hard drive died as soon as we opened the box and we had to send it back and buy another one from another supplier after we didn't have any confidence in the original supplier because between them and ShittyLink, they delayed our order by 3 days. Bastards.

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// Edit: The other purpose of this thread before I got going with my rant was that fellow geeks can converse full in the knowledge that nobody understands a thing they're on about

Yeah i had smart failure on my other comp the other week. The whole thing got a overhaul so a new hdd was bought.

See Jamie, this is why I'm not really a geek. I don't program in anything but Java really. All real geeks hate java.

It's just so easy to program. Especially when you use Eclipse.

Metalbrew Stu wrote:See Jamie, this is why I'm not really a geek. I don't program in anything but Java really. All real geeks hate java.

It's just so easy to program. Especially when you use Eclipse.

Eclipse is the work of Satan. Why the fuck does it tell me there's an error, but it doesn't tell me why there's an error there. It's like it's mocking me, saying "You can't program, why should I tell you why you're screwing up?" lol

Java is for gays and men with small cocks. I hate Java.

Java is my favourite programming language. I'm not sure how skillful you are at it Craig, but those tasks shouldn't be too difficult. Personally, I don't go near the GUI packages if I can. I perfer my Java to be Web-based. I'm actually just putting the finishing touches on my dissertation project. I coded an online Metal store using J2EE and MySQL entirely in Notepad. 11,000 lines of code. The majority of Java Development Environments I've used over the years are shit.

Well your project manager, says instead of moaning about Java get on with it!!! hehe you know i dont mean it really!!! lol Thankies!!!
Hehe and now ive got a registered account hahahahahahaha!!!

Bane wrote:Java is my favourite programming language. I'm not sure how skillful you are at it Craig, but those tasks shouldn't be too difficult. Personally, I don't go near the GUI packages if I can. I perfer my Java to be Web-based. I'm actually just putting the finishing touches on my dissertation project. I coded an online Metal store using J2EE and MySQL entirely in Notepad. 11,000 lines of code. The majority of Java Development Environments I've used over the years are shit.

Well it's my first year at uni. Java itself isn't too bad. I just don't like it when it doesn't work

Another part of the assignment is JUnit testing, which I have no clue how to do. I guess I'll figure it out eventually, but apparantly I've now been told by the "project manager" that I should be coding. Bollocks.

I love eclipse. It even corrects spelling mistakes. I take forever debugging without an IDE, so even knowing where the error is is good for me. Never had a problem with eclipse really. I'm doing my dissertation with it, and it's working a charm.

Also just found a plug in to reverse engineer UML class diagrams. That's a bloody bonus.

Metalbrew Stu wrote:Also just found a plug in to reverse engineer UML class diagrams. That's a bloody bonus.

Haha, we were actually taught about that in our first year. Wrong move. Now everbody is just coding it all first, then handing in class diagrams produced in Eclipse. The plug in is Omondo?

Project manager is only acting in your best interests! She is the best project manager, and this is proven Dudlian fact! but your the bestist coder!, and project manager has secret chocolate biscuits, for when the going gets tough this week!! hehe

AgileJ is the one I found.

I fucking hate UML. I made a crappy one to show my supervisor ages ago, but my code is totally different now. On my original class diagram there were 15 classes, I've got 40 now!

Metalbrew Stu wrote:AgileJ is the one I found.

I fucking hate UML. I made a crappy one to show my supervisor ages ago, but my code is totally different now. On my original class diagram there were 15 classes, I've got 40 now!

40 classes you n00b, i have 3 yeah. its well bum.

Ouch

The problem with this assignment is that it throws randomly placed ArrayIndexOutOfBounds exceptions. I've tracked the error down to the iterator, where it moves to the next element in the ArrayList.

The game was supposed to be modified so that every time an Asteroid is moved to an area out of the screen it's deleted from the array, to free up memory and free up spaces in the ArrayList.

My guess is that the code to remove an Asteroid is being called by multiple threads at the same time, therefore fucking everything up. I can't think of any way to stop it, so I'm stuck. I hate Java.

There are 10 types of people.

Those who understand binary, and those who don't.