Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!fi.sn.net!newsfeed1.tdcnet.fi!news.song.fi!not-for-mail From: Jukka Lahtinen Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters Organization: none References: <1672e2f1-a963-4fcf-b651-41b69432c9d7@p29g2000pre.googlegroups.com> <8a63e1c0-47a9-4806-a1f3-93405e3c2e8e@u6g2000prc.googlegroups.com> X-no-archive: yes Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:56:25 +0300 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xApuiPN8bfK3+JntyyYV+Po4YqM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 25 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.17.207.67 X-Trace: 1311771556 news.tdc.fi 2830 81.17.207.67:57463 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tdcnet.fi Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:6610 lewbloch writes: > On Jul 26, 2:19 am, Jukka Lahtinen >> lewbloch writes: >> > Chad wrote: >> >> The following code, which is taken from one of my school books, >> > Really, don't use this book.  Get a good book. >> TOP told us it's a school book. When at school, were you allowed to >> choose the books yourself? > Yes, as long as I also chose the books the teacher specified. .. > If you are committed to learning and the book is bad, you get a good > book and learn it independently of whatever the professor mandates. Of course, a dedicated student may read good books in addition to what the school requires. But the point is, they often can't just ditch the book required for the studies, no matter how bad it is. They often need to do exercises from the given book, and the book, no matter how bad it is, probably makes it easier to follow the lectures and summarize what has already been taught. -- Jukka Lahtinen