I ramble alot, maybe I should start a blog.

We're going over class files, methods, method types, etc. These are things I have already learned, though I still have yet to understand the difference between static and non-static and their uses. A number of times I have run into problems involving contradictions between the two, for which there is apparently no simple solution. I have tried reading online documentation but have failed to find any that explains the subject in a way that makes sense to me.

The more I learn about java the more anxious I get about actionscript. I had Flash on an old mac of mine but when I recently got a new computer (Windows) I lost the ability to run flash. Actionscript, when compared to java, almost seems like multiple programming languages. There's a huge amount of pre-made functions, from graphics to effects to even basic 3D engines. Hit tests are done for you, though the syntax is a bit lower level than java, but only a bit.

I do feel like, since there are no built in graphics libraries, that we should learn how to make graphics from the core since there already so much pre-written code in the labs. This being said, I don't know what the syntax is like and I can understand if it's hard to teach with as basic programming knowledge as we have so far.