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Jana,<br>
Jeremiah 29:11 Says God knows his plans for you. Plans for your welfare
and not calamity. Plans to give you a future and hope.<br>
In January I lost my job and shortly after that I found JSword and
started working on it. Between looking for work I spent the rest of my
time sharpening my Java skills here. I just started working 3 weeks
ago. So I was able to devote about 9 solid months of effort.<br>
<br>
By the way Raytheon in State College, PA has been hiring.<br>
<br>
I would say ditto to what the others have said. I would suggest that
you get Eclipse, connect to CVS, run the program until you are familiar
with it. If something does not make sense or does not work the way you
think it should or just doesn't work at all, then shout (as Joe put
it). As we have shown the program to others, they have pointed out what
we miss or have become accustomed to. We not only want to make the code
easy to use and maintain, we want the program to be very obvious.<br>
<br>
Once you become comfortable with the program, then find a bug and try
to isolate it using the debugger and print statements. As Eric said,
that is the best way to become familiar with the code.<br>
<br>
<br>
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<pre wrap="">Hi,
I think you've had some good advice. I'll add the following:
Bible Desktop, our GUI front-end, uses Swing because we started it
before SWT, so if you wish to get involved in helping with the code
that is there then Swing is a better place to start.
I hope all our code is easily understood, so if you are having trouble
with some part, then please shout - it probably means you've found a
bit that is trickier, and we'd like to make the code easy to maintain,
and easy to maintain means easy to understand.
I think Java will probably give you a hard time for the first week or
2 and you'll feel like giving up because there are just too many
things to learn. But once you get past the initial, near-vertical
lerning curve then gets a lot easier..
Eric mentioned JUnit and Davy mentioned Eclipse as things worth
looking up. I'd like to add Ant and CVS to your list. Eclipse can help
you do the other 3, and particularly CVS becomes 100x easier with
Eclipse.
Joe.
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:14:32 -0400, Jana Lingo <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:vze3k4rv@verizon.net"><vze3k4rv@verizon.net></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">hello
I am intirigued by the projevt and would like to lend a hand, but don't
how to get started.
A little bit about me and my skill set:
I'm 43, and having been doing software development off and on for 20
years. I live in Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA and am an active member of
the local Presybyterian church. My recent programming experience has
been doing COBOL programming on a Unisys(Univac, for the old fogies)
maiframe. I realized that I needed to update my skillset, and have
built a new pc from scrath(dual boot Linux/Windows)> I was looking
around for something to do,and saw and article about Sword/Bibletime on
Newsforge. Not to mention that I could be of sevice to the Lord. The
previous time I tried teaching myself C++ programming, I failed. I did
some projects a while ack in Object PAL(Paradox) and really liked it. I
had planned on getting a little bit more up to speeed on all this before
de-luring myself, but I lost my job on friday. This means i've got lot
more time and lot les money to do this, but I still feel lead to do it.
here's where I am so far:
I have several Java book
Head First Java <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hfjava/">http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hfjava/</a>
Learning Java <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnjava2/">http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnjava2/</a>
Just Java2
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0131482114/jr_cd-20/104-3291829-9147917">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0131482114/jr_cd-20/104-3291829-9147917</a>
Ideas/ comments? i looking at a "course" on javaranch.com before
yesterday, but now the $200 stick in my brain, Do you think it's worth
it.
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Jana Lingo <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:vze3k4rv@verizon.net"><vze3k4rv@verizon.net></a>
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