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Top Java Developers Offer Advice to Students
- dcminter 18y agoCorporate marketing (11 NetBeans mentions and none of Eclipse? Riiight), not that interesting, not new, not especially hacker-ish.
- Shamiq 18y ago"hacker-ish" Now that is a hard to define word.
- paulgb 18y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
- mark_h 18y agoI didn't think it was that bad; most of it could have come from The Pragmatic Programmer. Certainly, nearly everyone mentioned netbeans, but it was usually in the context of a generic point such "learn to use your tools really well; for example in netbeans...".
- dcminter 18y agoSun marketing materials always seem to go to painful lengths to avoid mentioning Eclipse so perhaps I'm overly sensitive to it. Anecdata: I use Eclipse. Most professional Java devs I know use that or IntelliJ IDEA. NetBeans is nowhere. I did think that a cut-n-paste of the earlier articles was insufficiently interesting for HN though.
- betapi 18y agoI'm a student,and I found it interesting so I submitted it. I wasn't trying to push any corporate agenda. For the record, I do prefer Eclipse over NetBeans... .
- bayareaguy 18y agoI think the best advice from that article came from Rick Cattell: Good Technology Is Only 10% of Success
- brl 18y ago"Don't use line numbers" Excuse me? Line numbers? "Don't put your entire application in one method." Bu..but I can't call GOSUB anymore because you took away my LINE NUMBERS dude! "Write lots of code" This is solid advice, but when you're talking about Java the punchline writes itself :)