[ale] OT: procedural to OO and semi-OT jbuilder question

[J.M. Taylor]

Greetings All

First, the semi-OT question: using jbuilder for linux, can I import stuff
I've done outside jbuilder?  For development, I prefer to write the stuff
just using vi, and use javac to compile and run at the command line, but
for class I have to turn in stuff that will run in jbuilder. So far,
anything I just open in jbuilder and try to run refuses to see the other
files in the project. I tried giving the ...default configuration?...
environment a "-cp ." flag to tell it its classpath but unsurprisingly
that didn't work.

Now the really OT question:
I know there's lots of programming experience out there on ALE, so I was
hoping to get some input on this.

I've been doing procedural programming for awhile now, and I've done some
pretty large projects that way. When I design, I think procedurally.  I'm
trying to get a CS degree and am taking an intermediate, intro to object
oriented course (using Java), but it's aimed at undergrads with no real
experience (so, nothing to unlearn).

Do any of you have experience going back and forth between procedural and
OO projects?  Do you have any words of wisdom for designing for OO when
you're not used to thinking that way?  I understand the *concept* of what
the objects are for, but applying that to real program design is daunting.

Thanks
jenn



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