One thing that I want to do is build something with Java 5 (or 1.5...), but I had a hard time using a language if I don't actually have a purpose. I need to think of a small project that I can do, something simple.
One possible small app that I just thought of was something that I had to do in first year engineering. You had an island that had an oil slick somewhere on it. The "oil" defused based on what the concentration to every side of it (N,E,S,W). Depending on how "stable" you want to compute the contamination, you iterate for different amount of times.
Does anyone else know of something simple and easy to play around with?
I wanted to use Java 5 for Durham/AudioMan if you are interested...
ReplyDelete...some details on my blog today.
ReplyDeleteYou might want to try something that ties into the new features of Java 5. What's the point if whatever you implement would be no different if it was in Java 1.4, or 1.3. Try using Generics, or the new "For Each" loop when iterating through a collection. Are there any other new features that I'm forgetting about?
ReplyDeleteNo Kibbee, they released a new version because only two things where added :p
ReplyDeleteWhat was added then? I really want to know.
ReplyDeleteThere were a bunch of other things like auto boxing / unboxing, and making it handle things more like C/C++ with variable length arguments and printf's. Google it to find more info. ;-P
ReplyDeleteI think that I'll check out Durham soon, but I have a couple of other things that I want to take care of first. I think that the program that I talked about (from first year) I'll do. It's more of a spike than anything anyways.