Meme
Totally nicked from jacquie_o, because with my desk as it looks right now; this should be interesting. *Grabs the measuring tape and goes about finding the nearest book*
Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
Much of the time, you will have the correct intuition when you think of "the object box" rather than the technically more accurate "the object reference stored in box".
Big Java, 3rd Edition by Cay Horstmann
So there you go; one of the very basic teachings of beginners' Java.
Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
Much of the time, you will have the correct intuition when you think of "the object box" rather than the technically more accurate "the object reference stored in box".
Big Java, 3rd Edition by Cay Horstmann
So there you go; one of the very basic teachings of beginners' Java.