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Jim Royer Quotes

  "Just think about Pascal with ugly syntax, and you've got C."

"Java is for the WWW, and therefore, it's slow."

"I once knew vi. I went screaming back to emacs as soon as possible."

"Now into syntactic foolishness."

 

Learning some things
"Okay, public means other things can call this, static means... Oh, let's not worry about it."

"The reason C was invented is, Dennis Ritchie wanted to work on the Unix project, but didn't want to get his hands dirty with assembler. So, he dirtied them with C."

"Have we done anything bizarre in here? No, nothing yet. We'll do something bizarre today."

"Oh, we get to see what static really means today."

"The way humans like to interact with computers resembles humans too much."

"Netscape crashes enough as it is. Java doesn't need to add to the chaos."

"Java doesn't want to roll over and die."

"Thank you! [for pointing out an obvious mistake] You could get a job as a Java compiler."

"I am a movie, and I have this rating."

"Let's see. This is worth teaching."

"If you wanna go syntax, let's go all the way!"

"Not only do I want more chairs, I want more blackboard space."

"If you've got problems with the labs, you've got a TA, right there, tethered to the machine. He can't go away. So ask."

"Everything is an object. Well, almost everything is an object. int isn't an object. It's an int."

"But still, we want to be lazy. How can we get more mileage out of these guys?"

"40? Boy, that's a good answer. But no. There are 2 obvious answers, and 40 is neither of the above."

"Unlike the way C abuses strings.."

"[In Java,] Strings are static values you can't change. If you want arrays of characters you can beat up on, that's different. But these are Strings."

"And then I declare victory..."

"Again, Java thinks it is very bad taste to just roll over and die. Well, at least without making a last statement."

 

Data structures
"In computer memory, of course, you don't have these cute little arrows."

"You do not have to deallocate it. This happens automagically in Java."

"The linked list is a baby data structure, but it's the basis of many, many other data structures. So we want to nail this, and nail it well."

"Focusing on just the boxcar. Nothing else."

"One of the arts of programming is knowing how to structure things [data]. The way you learn this is by looking at lots of code, and doing lots of coding. Learning where to break the joints of problems."

"This is one of the petty, trivial things that will cause hell if you don't do it."

"The other thing I want to do is be able to unlink a boxcar and push it off the rails."

"So this is another class... And this is the goods. The real goods."

"That was so much fun, let's do it again."

"This is one of those cases where you want to look ahead, to see if you're going to fall off, so you land on a mattress when you do fall off."


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