Thread: Hello Java_enthousiastics !

Hello Everybody ,

As a retired programmer ( started my carreer in the punched-card-age: Yes that old ! ) and now programming for fun mostly in C on Linux-machines , I want to delve into the Java-scene .

At first sight this seems a piece-of-cake , taking into considiration the syntax-simularities between C /C++ and Java !

But alas : As one tries to produce some simple basic apps (p.e printing-out the partition-table in the MBR) under Java , a C-programmer stumbles upon a forest (jungle?) of IO-classes , and pointers ... where are the pointers ?

I think the learning-curve will be pretty steep , learning new tricks , and forgetting the old-ones , will be hardest part !

Thanks for all the expertise I'll find in this forum .

Greetz!

Erics

Welcome to the forum. And yes, you will find this forum very useful and find some great lot of expertise here. Probably you may be able to share with us your expertise and your experience too by helping and doing the needful.