CST 338

Hindsight is 20/20 Going into this class, I would have a few recommendations for the next cohort. First, study up on your Java! Not having to learn the language from scratch makes this class very digestible. Second, plan a good collaborative workflow for your team. My team used GitHub and Slack, and the process of … Read more

Have you ever created an app before, either for Android or iPhone? How did it go? I have experimented with app development using Flutter recently. The experience was pleasant and certainly more straightforward than using traditional Android programming, but I didn’t do much with it. Now that I have some experience creating an app, I … Read more

What experience do you have with UML diagrams? I first learned UML diagrams in my second semester Intro to Computer Science course in community college. Outside of this course, I have only made a few on them. Are they used at your workplace? I have not worked in an IT space, so I have not … Read more

GUI is learned late in the game with Java. Do you think this is helpful or harmful and why? I think learning a GUI is important, but it is helpful to wait until later to teach it. Speaking from experience, to a novice programmer, a GUI can seem like a monumental task. I recall looking … Read more

Polymorphism An example of polymorphism that I often see is the “Shapes” class. I used this example in an introductory Java course previously. A class Shapes is defined as: This creates a class with all the common factors of a geometrical shapes. Then, in child classes Box and Sphere, all of the methods and data … Read more

This week, we looked at multi-dimensional arrays. I have used these types of arrays in both C++ and Java previously. The largest I have used are two-dimensional arrays. I think anything larger than that is unreasonable, and I cannot think of an instance in which I would want to use one. Many other data structures … Read more

Most languages I have used feature OOP elements. In fact, I don’t think I have used any languages that don’t feature OOP outside of Linux shell scripting, which I do not have much experience with. I have not used OOP outside of school extensively but I have on occasion. I have used it recently when … Read more

Q/A Have you used Eclipse before? I have used Eclipse in the past. At my community college, I took 2 courses in Java which were taught with Eclipse in mind. In these courses, I used Eclipse to manage Java SDKs and set up version control. While I prefer using Visual Studio Code as my text … Read more