malkav11

I've been putting off my Java Programming 2 homework forever and ever and ever. I have two days left to get this stuff in or I will probably fail the class. I was beginning to question whether I really wanted to go into programming. It seems like I'll probably wind up in some sort of office/data entry work immediately post-college anyhow, I could just make a career out of that. Exciting? Not really. But I've never been *that* excited about working. It's something I do to get money to live on, and I'm pretty sure I could live all right on the money from that sort of work, especially if I went long term and got regular raises.

But then I actually started doing the work. I just put together a class that models a pizza with eight topping possibilities in any combination, complete with methods to add or remove single toppings and display what's on it at the moment. It's pretty basic, really, and I probably kludged things that could have been handled simpler and more elegantly. It's a support class for a more complicated program I need to build.

Even so, even given that it's really not practically useful in any genuine way...the process was just so absorbing. Deciding what I needed it to do, figuring out how to make it do those things...I'll probably have to make a bug-zapping pass or two too. It's so crunchy. I love it. I still have trouble imagining getting into doing the sort of complicated thousands and thousands of lines of code projects that would doubtless make up my bread and butter as a professional programmer, and working on someone else's code/having to write for someone else, those would be weird too.

But I think I want to find out.