Are There Any Programming Enthusiasts
First off, I can't believe there wasn't more results like this in my image search. I thought it would have been an obvious pun. Secondly, I'm not exactly an enthusiast but a student hoping to maybe run into enthusiasts willing to impart their knowledge preferably in a way I can understand. I'm on my third assignment and I'm having difficulty.
I have to design a JavaFx program that shows two images and text in a Grid pane. I've looked at my reading list and various sites and I understand how to set it up but the professor wants us to execute it using Maven. I have looked at numerous sites on this (been working on it off and on since Sunday) and I don't understand the correlation.
Like why should I use it? I generally do the code in Notepad and plug it into Any but I can't do that with this assignment. And the code looks different than what I'm used to and I'm getting errors that I don't understand.
I want to try and understand --actually I have to understand because the next assignment is more advanced. If anyone could take the time to explain or point me to a location that doesn't give vague expectations, I'd appreciate it.
So I managed to find the link to all the packages it says I was missing & I was able to go line by line and look at the errors and try to fix them. I was able to render it I think. It was late so I shut the monitor off and checked it this morning. The status bar was gone but I don't know if it actually did anything (was 4 am). I'll check this evening. I may have linked more than what was needed but I wanted to be safe instead of sorry.
This is only my fifth project and my beginner's course was back in July but it seems like the assignments were easier.
When I was studying computer engineering in school, I would use https://www.chegg.com/ quite a bit for homework help. It looks like their website is much more advance now than it was when I was in school.
(For studying purposes) I have used Code Academy, Khan Academy, and Udemy for help. On my phone, been using SoloLearn to relearn some things...it's been a long time. That's for something quick.
Does your university offer tutors? I was in a program for low-income students that provided free tutoring when I was in uni. Had to pay for uni on my own.
Good luck btw! I wish you the best in your studies.
@ImpudentIncognito I used Chegg a couple of times with the first class but I switched to Course Hero because they had more documents I think or else Chegg couldn't answer my questions. That and the emails were extremely frequent.
That being said, all the documents show is the code. Even the book tied to this course shows the code which I understand up to a point. If it's a straight thing like Linux or doing a Command Prompt or even SQL I get (once I understood the structure) but this. Why do I have to do the code then import outside links in XML? And why is the output dependent on them? Why does it fail when the XML page doesn't seem to have any of the code concerning the project?
Supposedly this method is more user friendly but I have been confused since Sunday. I've been on Stack, GitHub, Apache's site, W3 Schools, etc. and I don't get complete information plus the information found is usually outdated.
I rebuilt it for a fourth time. I installed the version before the most current version and I don't get as many errors as before. I kept getting "file not found errors" although I downloaded the relevant files at least three times.
Now all I'm getting are compilation errors like: "illegal start of expression." I know where it is happening but I don't really get how to change it to fix it.
This whole week has been stressful because of this assignment and I've probably spent more time trying to figure it out than other students so that doesn't make me feel smart.
Now I'm getting a "main class not found" error. It's there. None of the suggestions on various sites works for me. I've reinstalled the program and still nothing works.
Stess and anxiety are high which compounds the feelings of stupidity and incompetence. The dog wanting me to play with her every five minutes doesn't help. I feel like I'm trapped by this. I can't quit because my job situation is so stressful and quitting would make my student loans come due and I don't have a high enough paying job to pay it back at this moment.
I really don't know what to do now.
