| John T 2007-02-27, 10:14 pm |
| First, for those who may not already know, I am NOT a Java programmer.
I am learning the language for my own purposes (
Along with Ruby, XML, Perl and Groovy).
I have sucessfully written a Java program which parses an XML file and
am using it in my job. I am a technical support person, who specializes
in printing systems, namely the way that our systems (HPUX and SunOS)
interface with a print server running Easyspooler and Infoprint Manager.
With that in mind, I think I am ready for a project. However, the
closest thing I can come up with on my own, as anyone who has read any
of my previous threads can tell, is some form of real world modelling.
I am *not* convinced that this would be benefical to me as a learning
experience.
So let me elaborate on what I have been studying.
I am familiar with classes, interfaces, packages and polymorphism,
although interfaces and polymorphism are still somewhat foreign to me.
I know a little bit about interfacing with Oracle and MySQL and have
done a very rudimentary JSP page which talks to an Oracle database.
Since I have no current projects in my job which require me to do any
kind of Java programming (I came up with the XML parser as satisfying a
need I had) I am looking for some suggestions.
I have made my way through some of Eckle's book (and even have had an
email from him). I have worked my way through the first portion of the
Sun Java Tutorial. I've studied the Horstmann books (text for a class I
took in Java) and, my favorite, Head First Java.
I would like to do something with what I have learned. I'm not ready
for GUI programming yet, nor do I want something trivial. Perhaps
someone out there has written something along the lines of what I am
looking for and would be willing to share with me the requirements for
what they did. From the requirements, I can do a Use-Case and UML
diagrams and from there, get to the coding.
*Remember* I come from a procedural language (COBOL) background and have
done very little OOP aside from SAS (does anyone remember SAS) and some
Delphi, so please, be gentle. A simple project is all I am looking for.
I'm not going to market it and I'm not going to post my code here
looking for suggestions on how to clean it up.
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