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Java

Posted by Dominik Huber
Dominik Huber
4,631 Points

Proceed with the course or should I do the chapter again?

Hi,

I just took the Java Objects course. It teaches me what it's really all about classes and methods and objects.

I did everything and finally succeeded. We created the game hangman in the console. A MVP.

My question: I analyzed the code and I understand almost every bit of it instead of the exception \ try catch thingy . But the thing is if you throw the tasks at me make this hangman game again without help I would 100 % fail. Because I'm not yet thinking like a programmer I guess. So he flies through all this classes and methods like ease but not me. I don't know yet when to create methods in which class etc.

Should I retake the same course and make notes about everything and repeat it until I get it? Or practice this ... If yes where? How could I practice it?

Or should I resume the track?

Please help me I'm feeling bad because I don't know what to do. And for him creating all the methods and classes looked so easy but I don't have an idea of it. Makes me sad.

2 Answers

john larson
john larson
16,594 Points
john larson
john larson
16,594 Points

Hi Dominik, for me personally...I am doing all the things you mentioned. Done my courses beginning to end. Tried out things on my own, usually find in the process that each thing I try brings up endless new questions. Gone back through the courses again, and again. Right now I'm really delving into one particular project at the end of a course...line by line till I really feel like I get it.

Cindy Lea
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Cindy Lea
Courses Plus Student 6,497 Points
Cindy Lea
Cindy Lea
Courses Plus Student 6,497 Points

I would read up more on the try catch by viewing examples on the web. Then I would move on. Sometimes the next class clarifies things in the first course because you might see a different example of it in a new light. If you dwell too long on one thing, it might get frustrating or boring. Keep moving & stop and ponder when you need to.

john larson
john larson
16,594 Points

Cindy, I found the approach you mentioned worked at first. However, I found that some courses get harder and harder, faster and faster. So that forging ahead, yes I made it through but there was so much more I needed to know from those very same lessons.