Re: SCJP console tutorial

From:
Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:18:56 -0400
Message-ID:
<h3vh1h$gs1$1@news.albasani.net>
aditya wrote:

I have uploaded some tutorial on the internet. If you find some time
have a look at it.

viewed at : www.sasanetworking.asia


Except for various spelling and grammar errors ("softwares" for "software",
"transcient" for "transient" (although I am intrigued by the semantic
possibilities of "transcient")), this is really a very good site. At first
glance the information is accurate, useful and extensive. It is not
plagiarized. It is not your typical blogspam ripoff. It's a legitimate and
helpful set of notes from a Java programmer that aims to help the rest of us.

What a pleasant surprise. Keep up the good work, aditya.

Minor criticisms:

- Be sure to spell the language name, keywords, classes and methods correctly,
such as 'ObjectInputStream', "Java" (the language itself), 'instanceof' or
'hashCode()', including with respect to upper and lower case.

- Go through the site and correct the spelling, if not also the grammar, errors.

- The abbreviation "i.e." has a period after each letter, and is followed by a
comma, i.e., like this. Similarly for "e.g.".

- There is one major error in your notes on generics, where you incorrectly
claim that "[p]olymorphism dont [sic] apply for generics" and consequently
that "[g]eneric Methods [sic] wont [sic] accept polymorphic arguments". These
statements are quite false.

- It is partly false that "[i]n generic methods we cannot use add() method.
the method declaration will look something like this [examples with wildcards
follow]". You are correct but misleading in that you don't explain that it's
the effect of wildcards.

Otherwise it's an excellent site.

--
Lew

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