#working of java program

[marlow-holly]

yeah sex is nice but have you ever found exactly what you were looking for on the first google search??

[tea-with-eleni]

Okay I think I like raspberry pi. I think I like micro bit powered robots. It’s so much easier to learn how to make computers do bullshit things when I have a goal for an adorable tiny computer who is trying his best.

Also it’s really easy to win over staff on a technology when it is objectively adorable.

[projectbatman193]

Learning to code with Mimo has been quite fun, it's almost like a duolingo for coding, been ejoying it quite a bit and learning a lot.

[codingcorgi]

I did something nice for myself as a reward for finishing my work on time! I will have to say loops in Java are basically the same as C# which is nice. I made some fluffy chicken mushroom rice! I also put it in my small pumpkin bowl. I am going to work on my app this evening too!

[levelzeo]

If you don’t want to read a rant someone has about a stupid task they have for their coding job, feel free to skip over this post.

So.

My current job is to make pages for a program my team is creating. Specifically, I’m taking old pages and remaking them using newer, less outdated frameworks and services. For some pages it’s very simple. This is not one of them.

The current page I’m working on is actually 50+ pages in a trench coat, and each of them have their own unique combination of tabs and fields that the user can mess around with. Doing each of those individually would be a nightmare, but luckily, the original page is able to generate all 50 of its sub-pages through a single service. That service is 2k lines of code, but it’s not the worst thing in the world.

But as time goes on, and my coworkers and I make our way through this code, we realize whoever made this original page was a madman.

Fields get saved in strange ways. Dates that should be saved separately as numbers are instead combined into one singular string alongside other data for no good reason. (ex: “6/10 | 6/16 | false” yes with those “|” in between them, no I don’t understand why)

Meanwhile, it’s a 50/50 whether a dropdown comes with the list of options the user can select, or if the list was hardcoded into the UI.

But the thing that broke me came recently.

While testing, we found that 3 of the 50+ pages weren’t working right. Nothing about them stands out, there’s nothing unique to just these three, and they aren’t even next to each other. Why aren’t they working? Well, that’s because, FOR SOME REASON, these three pages aren’t included in that 2k line service I mentioned. For seemingly no reason, these three have their own service. A service, that is three times as long.

Three.

Times.

6k lines of code that need to be sorted through.

We don’t know why. Our best guess is that these three came first, but then someone else came in and made a “simpler” (but still insane) way to do the rest, and just forgot to include the first three in that.

I’ve been working on this page for months, and I fear what I might discover next.

[phantasmagoratory]

putting together a minecraft modpack project i shelved like 3 years ago for caves & cliffs now that that's out... kinda excited to see if i can get it to a state im happy with! it's a survival-adventure pack with an emphasis on the survival. only sad part is that the climbing mods i like don't have fabric equivalents, but maybe one day i could port that if i wised up?

[garden-eel-draws]

Ah, yes, calling a System function.

Also known as calling upon a wizard to use a tiny sliver of their vast, unknowable magicks to System.out.print()

[aria0fgold]

I've been grabbing random Shimeji that I stumble into which has customized animations to examine how the creators added to the code and I can't believe I'm lowkey relearning programming cuz of this.

[a-dash-in-the-middle]

I just realised how fucked up my schedule is gonna be next semester so please wish me luck...

[danideezvito]

Programming memories

I've been writing a little cli to quickly perform Wikipedia searches in Kotlin lately and it's had me thinking about my journey up to this point learning programming. Back in high school, 10th grade I signed up for an XHTML, CSS and JS class where I had the opportunity to get a little certification and just have 3 hours a day to learn about it. I was absolutely hooked. I remember I'd have a blast making these little websites but wanted to learn desktop development. Eventually that led me to python and i liked it but felt it was lacking, though lacking what I didn't know because I knew literally nothing at the time. I wanted to write a text rpg, and read that python wasn't a good fit for my task and I should try Java instead, so I did. I hated it. Despised it actually, coming from python and JavaScript it seemed way too verbose, and confusing. I found it asinine that i needed to import something just to get input from the keyboard (honestly, still find it a bit odd.) But bizarrely, despite not sticking with it, and despite learning several other languages- even quitting programming for years after- the way I think, the way I initially want to do things has always been very Java-like. It colored my thinking in such a profound way, I've always kinda wondered what it was. Eventually I began to try out every single programming language, and found that everything abstracted too much, was too slow for my liking, didn't have static typings, didn't have the option for dynamic typing. Finally i realized after jumping around, developing a crippling inability to actually finish a programming language that literally Java (or kotlin as now I found that fun, but worry about the implicit binding to intellij) was what I wanted in a lang all along.

The shit you get to thinking about debugging, huh?

[non-threatening-feminist-boy]

okay so i decided to finally start writing again by writing some fanfiction. But, me being me, what did i decide to use for that? Word? Perhaps google docs? Maybe even email drafts? Writing app on my phone??? Nope. (Okay kinda.)

My old Nokia N97

[haxpaxmisc]

this is my THIRD TIME trying to upload this ABC design i made, i am in super hell and can't tell u more than the fact that she's an old rave-scene glory who haxx

[projectbatman193]

This is the very first program I've coded, and it's basically a D20 😊

[sad--tree]

i need to do my java assignment. i need to start my java assignment. i need to open my java assignment and look at it. i need to do my java assignment. i need to do my java assignment. i need to complete to-dos in my java assignment. i need to do my java assignment.

(<- is too afraid and overwhelmed to write a single new line of code in the java assignment)

[pankiepoo]

Pankie's Fan Shimeji!

(ignore the terrible quality)

Installation instructions below!

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:

(Computer only) Export the zip folder, download the latest Java, and then run the executable!

Right-click on Fan or the little program icon to prompt actions/change settings!

There's a readme for help with troubleshooting in case it doesn't work!

(Song - A Party Instrumental from Inanimate Insanity (sped up + pitched))

[goopyradio]

It's here! Our newest product - VOXEJI !

If you don't know, a shimeji is a program where a character roams around your computer screen (in this case, it's our lovely Vox) 

If you already know how to download them, here's the link:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/mmcj5k9riqe3lph/Vox_Shimeji.zip/file

Otherwise, see below for install instructions!

You need:

Java

Windows 10 or 11 (may work on other OSes, not tested)

Instructions:

1. Click the link above, and hit download 2. Find Vox Shimeji.zip in your downloads > right click > extract all > extract 3. You should now have a file called Vox Shimeji - open it, then open the Vox folder 4. Double click shimeji-ee.jar or shimeji-ee.exe 5. His little Voxtek logo should appear at the bottom right of the screen. On Windows 11, it might be inside the little ^ menu 6. A moment later, he should fall onto the screen! Right click him for more options or just let him run around

Edit: If the icon appears but Vox doesn't, please try this download link instead! https://www.mediafire.com/file/dy5ric3qa07h9yd/Vox_V2.zip/file

If you encounter any trouble, message me and I'll help fix it!