12 Tips to make you more productive using Eclipse
Integrated development environments make developing application fair easier. They highlight syntax, let you know if you have a compilation error, and allow you to step through your code among so many other things. Like all IDEs Eclipse has a bunch of little shortcuts and tools that can make your life a lot easier, I've compiled a list of several that I use on a daily basis:
1. Auto-complete – Eclipse has an auto-complete feature that can be accessed with ctrl + space. When clicked a small pop-up box is displayed with a list of context sensitive suggestions. If there is only one possibility then Eclipse completes it for you.
8 tips for new programmers
A successor in spirt to my 7 tips for every person wishing to be a programmer, here are 8 tips for when you finally land your first development job. These tips will hopefully help prepare you for your new job, or help get you up to speed with the rest of your team.
1.You don't know anything – So you finally have your degree and after four years of intensive studying you think you know everything there is to know about programming. Like every other developer you will soon learn (or already have) that you know nothing. Be humble, put in your hard work, and know that over time you will learn.
A brief intro into unit testing with JUnit
Learning how to use the built-in IDE debuggers and write unit tests is as fundamental to being a developer as knowing how to write a for loop. These two tools will save you countless hours of frustration and help you write better code. Entire books are written on just these subjects, however today I will just give a simple tutorial on writing unit tests.
7 tips for every person wishing to be a programmer
If you are interested in pursuing a career in software development these tips could help make the road to accomplishing that goal a lot less bumpy. Below is seven tips that can help prepare you for a career in software development and make the first few months a lot less painful.
If, else and nothing else
When I was still very new to programming I had a bad habit of writing bloated code. One of my worse areas was when it came to the usage of If statements. Often times I would write a whole if/else block when I could had just as easily gotten the same results in just one line of code.
What are Java beans?!
Sometimes developers use programming jargon that new developers have a hard time comprehending. One term I frequently hear is “bean.” All a JavaBean is, is a class used to define the attributes of a entity; examples of commonly used beans would be person, customer, and employee. A JavaBean typically only contain private attributes and the getter and setter methods to access and set those attributes respectively.
How Java handles objects
How Java handles objects had always been a thorny issue for me. I don't know if it was a case of never being taught properly or my personal inability to learn, but I either way by the time I began my professional development career I only had very loose understanding of how Java handles objects. This gap in my knowledge impacted my ability to be an effective developer; my code had more bugs and implementing changes was more difficult. I remember many of my friends back in school also having trouble here, so I will spend my first real post (yay!) covering this important subject.
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