19th November 2008
Every year I get approached by students who find my website and hope I will help them complete their projects.
Here's what I can do for you:
- Review the code you've written
- Help you clean up your code
- Point out the bugs and unintended consequences of your code.
- Give you a day or two intensive training in Java
Here's what I will not do for you
- Write code for you. Most students approaching me find a variety of ways to ask me to write their code. I've heard all the variations and sorry, it's never going to happen.
You are two days away from a deadline and need help
- It's natural to panic at the approach of a deadline, however it doesn't help so calm down and read the rest of your options
- If you've realised that you don't actually know have to write Java, then here are the options
- Ask for an extension on your project submission
- Buy a good Java book and really learn it
- If you know how to write Java but you've left it a bit late to actually put together a working program
- Write a code skeleton (classes with empty methods)
- Write up a UML diagram of how you would make it work
- If you have time, flesh out the code skeleton with some basic implementation