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Bah. I need Java training for the project I'm starting work on, and because the person tasked with booking me on a course didn't do so, I'm now left in a situation where there is no course of kind I want (Java for C++ programmers - a basic Java course would leave me bored for most of it) available in London in the sort of timescale I'm looking for.

I did find one in Bath, but I don't particularly want to renege on prior commitments and go to Bath on the spur of the moment: I'd need to stay in Bath over the weekend, and that Shabbos I'm shammes and gabbai and leyning ראשון (!) in Assif, and spending time with

livredor, and there's the Yakar AGM motzei Shabbos too.

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pseudomonas.livejournal.com

Could you teach yourself? C++ and Java are quite similar.

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pseudomonas.livejournal.com

Sounds like you could do with someone in your workplace so that you could get on with stuff and they could just intervene if you had a problem or had done something unspeakably ugly (which is less likely, because with Java There's Only One Way To Do It.)

From:

lethargic-man.livejournal.com

I could. Indeed, I read a book on Java in 2000, and crunched down everything in it I needed to know as a C++ programmer into ten pages.

The problem with this approach is that I might end up writing bad Java, in C++ or Perl style. C programmers who try and teach themselves C++ often end up writing appalling C++, because they don't grok OO. Plus, I'm sure, there's lots of little ways of doing things I wouldn't get. (Also, I'd need someone to bother repeatedly whenever I had questions.)

But is is an option.

From:

curious-reader.livejournal.com

Maybe there is an online course for this. You can also ask an online teacher for help. Those courses I tried are mostly for homestudies. It was not Java or whatever you study. You might find something.

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curious-reader.livejournal.com

I asked in Pitman training where I used to do a training for MS-Office programs. There courses are very expensive and currently they don't have a course for Java anyway. But they will look for an online course and let me know. I said it is for a friend and not for me.