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I've been learning Ruby on Rails, Python, Javascript, and now am considering focusing on learning Java. As you would guess, there is quite a bit of difference.
by gamechangr 11y ago
I've been learning Ruby on Rails, Python, Javascript, and now am considering focusing on learning Java.
As you would guess, there is quite a bit of difference.
Appreciate the feedback.
- orionblastar 11y agoI've been told that they BlueJ IDE is great for beginners. http://www.bluej.org/ http://www.bluej.org/ When I started learning Java in 1995 I used Windows Notepad because there was nothing else I could find. There was no Hacker News to get good advice from, and paper based Java book to read from instead of free ebooks on the Internet and Github repositories for example code. Sometimes I had to pay money to get a floppy disk postal mailed to me with example code on it.
- mondainx 11y agoI first picked up java in 95 too; I can't for the life of me recall the name of the tool I used.. mocha or something like that for Windows.
- grizzles 11y agoIt's much faster to run multithreaded code in java than your other languages. Here's why: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Interpreter_Lock http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Interpreter_Lock
- mrits 11y agoIt is worth noting the limitations of the GIL. However, there are many situations where GIL won't slow down multitasking. There are also plenty of different strategies for mitigating this problem.