I’m happy to report our instructor sent us a very cool site to do Java exercises:
https://coderbyte.com/challenges
It’s a bit less intimidating than codingbat. I managed to do quite a few of the exercises. I saved all of them, with tons of comments, so that I have a ready reference of the different types of functions. One of my side projects is going to be to see if I can write these same types of functions using Gosu. Speaking of Gosu, I did some experimenting for the first time with the code on my local machine. Not much of anything happened, but at least I took the risk. I was going to go hog-wild and do something mad like deleting a button, but that seemed somehow wrong. At the very least, I think I’m finally at a point where I can at least try out a small user story (low, low, LOW down in the list, and something no one will flip out over if it’s not done in a timely manner). I may need to figure out Spring Batch first, but I suppose I could try to do both.
You know, I’m really hoping that a year from now I’ll read this and roar with laughter over how far I’ve come by that point.
