Abm0raz's Journal: Java update

Ok, thanks to those that responded. I'm using Eclipse right now and following the "Thinking In Java" book (just finished chapter 2.

Some observations so far:

• Is there any difference in Syntax from C++? I mean besides the obvious as Java lacks pointer notation (so no *p references), but from what I've seen so far, the syntax is exactly the same as C++, except that it's case sensative.

• One thing frustrates me to no end in Eclipse: Whenever I type out an object, class, or method and get to the "." to call something else inside it, it pops up all possible matches. This I like, but is it possible to change it so that when the match I want is the first in the list that I can hit "tab" instead of "enter" to select it. Just a pet peeve as all of the IDEs I used for my other languages used the tab button and it's getting a bit frustrating :)

  ***UPDATE***
  Figured it out. Window-> Preferences-> General-> Editors-> Keys-> Edit-> Word Completion-> Add "Tab"

• Here is my first bit of code from scratch:

  /* Thinking in Java 3rd ed. r4.0
  * Chapter 2 Exercise 5
  *
  * Write a program that includes and calls the storage( )
  * method defined as a code fragment in this chapter.
  *
  * Fragment:
  * 1. int storage(String s) {
  * return s.length() * 2;
  * }
  *
  * StorageTest.java by Abmoraz
  */

  class StorageSize {
  /* A string requires 2 bytes for every character.
  * StorageSize.storage() returns this value.
  */
      int storage (String s) {
              return s.length() * 2;
      }
  }

  public class StorageTest {
      public static void main(String[] args) {
          StorageSize S = new StorageSize();
          String str = new String("ThinkingInJava");
          System.out.println("The string: ");
          System.out.println(" " + str);
          System.out.print("requires ");
          System.out.print(S.storage(str));
          System.out.println(" bytes of storage.");
          return;
      }
  }

-Ab

Netbeans

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I missed your first entry about java. If you find yourself not liking eclipse I much prefer netbeans. Eclipse really seems meant for groups who want to do projects using the eclipse platform, where netbeans is just a good old IDE.