And, back to JAVA…

So tonight I pulled myself away from C# and stepped back in to the JAVA world. As I said previously, I’m actually trying to learn JAVA for business reasons and such. Along the way, I’ve been trying to learn MySQL as well. Well, tonight – thanks largely in part to my fooling around with the XNA tools, it all kind of clicked for me.

I sat down and wrote my first functional JAVA class (and test class) tonight in all of about 20 minutes. It’s nothing fancy, just a class that accepts some specific arguements and then writes them to a database. Really, it’s nothing big… but it’s my first. Wrapping my head around the object oriented functions on C# and the enjoyment of it through making a “game” really helped me grasp how this is all supposed to work. This is the first step for both my personal online media database and the mini-project I’m doing at work.

I’ve spent 2-3 months pouring over books and code, trying to sort things out. Between the beginnings of my XNA venture and now getting a JAVA class to write to a database… I feel like I’m starting to see some fruits from my labor. It feels good. Real good.