[techtalk] Servlets vs. PHP

[Britta Koch]

> My advisor is really good though and understands the whole learning curve
> problem, which is good for me.  Hopefully the curve will begin to flatten
> soon as far as Java is concerned... =)

What I found out about Java is this: it's got loads of libraries, so if
you're doing something, try and look at java.util. first! We've
implemented QuickSort and a Date Formatter ourselves before we found
out that these things existed! 

Another problem, of course, is Object Orientation, and I can only say:
try and make your interfaces and class definitions clean! All variables
protected with get() and set() methods, because once you do things
quick'n'dirty, they're likely to stay that way!

HTH

Britta
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