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This will probably be viewed as a really stupid question. But.. I'll ask for advice on it anyway = )

I had my first programming exam recently...and well I pretty much flopped it. Did not do great at all. I have only myself to blame as outside of college time, I pretty much did nothing.

Now I have another coming up near summer time and I'm not allowing this to happen again. For a couple of weeks now I've been reading, reading and reading some more. I keep going over the older things I missed and the newer things we're doing. So, obviously I can notice a huge difference in my understanding of the language. However, that's about it. I can read the code and I now have an idea of what's going on in the code... but when it comes to me writing the code myself I'm just clueless. It's like I never know what approach to take and can never really fully comprehend the questions.

Could you guys give any tips for someone who hasI have done a fair amount of reading (been doing around 5-6 hours for the past month or so) each day... But when opening my IDE I always feel doomed it's really demotivating. Especially because I have knowledge of nodes, lists, arraylists, interfaces ect ect but besides from reading them on a page that's about it. I can point out exactly everything that's going on in a program so annotating a presample code I find fine... but writing my own code is another story..

This will probably be viewed as a really stupid question. But.. I'll ask for advice on it anyway = )

I had my first programming exam recently...and well I pretty much flopped it. Did not do great at all. I have only myself to blame as outside of college time, I pretty much did nothing.

Now I have another coming up near summer time and I'm not allowing this to happen again. For a couple of weeks now I've been reading, reading and reading some more. I keep going over the older things I missed and the newer things we're doing. So, obviously I can notice a huge difference in my understanding of the language. However, that's about it. I can read the code and I now have an idea of what's going on in the code... but when it comes to me writing the code myself I'm just clueless. It's like I never know what approach to take and can never really fully comprehend the questions.

Could you guys give any tips for someone who has done a fair amount of reading (been doing around 5-6 hours for the past month or so) each day... But when opening my IDE I always feel doomed it's really demotivating. Especially because I have knowledge of nodes, lists, arraylists, interfaces ect ect but besides from reading them on a page that's about it. I can point out exactly everything that's going on in a program so annotating a presample code I find fine... but writing my own code is another story..

I had my first programming exam recently...and well I pretty much flopped it. Did not do great at all. I have only myself to blame as outside of college time, I pretty much did nothing.

Now I have another coming up near summer time and I'm not allowing this to happen again. For a couple of weeks now I've been reading, reading and reading some more. I keep going over the older things I missed and the newer things we're doing. So, obviously I can notice a huge difference in my understanding of the language. However, that's about it. I can read the code and I now have an idea of what's going on in the code... but when it comes to me writing the code myself I'm just clueless. It's like I never know what approach to take and can never really fully comprehend the questions.

I have done a fair amount of reading (been doing around 5-6 hours for the past month or so) each day... But when opening my IDE I always feel doomed it's really demotivating. Especially because I have knowledge of nodes, lists, arraylists, interfaces ect ect but besides from reading them on a page that's about it. I can point out exactly everything that's going on in a program so annotating a presample code I find fine... but writing my own code is another story..

making this language agnostic, seems to me like it's a more general thing than Java related, though I addressed that a bit in my own answer
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Java - Able to read Code but struggling majorly to write it

This will probably be viewed as a really stupid question. But.. I'll ask for advice on it anyway = )

I had my first programming exam for Java recently...and well I pretty much flopped it, did. Did not do great at all. OnlyI have only myself to blame as outside Collegeof college time, I pretty much donedid nothing.

Now I have another coming up near Summersummer time and I'm not allowing this to happen again. For a couple of weeks now I've been reading, reading and reading some more. I keep going over the older things I missed ect and the newer things we're doing. So, obviously I can notice a huge difference in my understanding of Javathe language. However, that's about it. I can read the code and I now have an idea of what's going on in the code...but but when it comes to me writing the code myself I'm just clueless. It's like I never know what approach to take and can never really fully comprehend the questions.

Could you guys give any tips for someone who has done a fair amount of reading ( beenbeen doing around 5-6 hours for the past month or so  ) each day...But But when opening Eclipsemy IDE I always feel doomed it's really demotivating. Especially because I have knowledge of nodes, lists, arraylists, interfaces ect ect but besides from reading them on a page that's about it. I can point out exactly everything that's going on in a program so annotating a presample code I find fine... but writing my own code is another story..

Java - Able to read Code but struggling majorly to write it

This will probably be viewed as a really stupid question. But.. I'll ask for advice on it anyway = )

I had my first programming exam for Java recently...and well I pretty much flopped it, did not do great at all. Only myself to blame as outside College time, I pretty much done nothing.

Now I have another coming up near Summer time and I'm not allowing this to happen again. For a couple of weeks now I've been reading, reading and reading some more. I keep going over the older things I missed ect and the newer things we're doing. So, obviously I can notice a huge difference in my understanding of Java. However, that's about it. I can read the code and I now have an idea of what's going on in the code...but when it comes to me writing the code myself I'm just clueless. It's like I never know what approach to take and can never really fully comprehend the questions.

Could you guys give any tips for someone who has done a fair amount of reading ( been doing around 5-6 hours for the past month or so  ) each day...But when opening Eclipse I always feel doomed it's really demotivating. Especially because I have knowledge of nodes, lists, arraylists, interfaces ect ect but besides from reading them on a page that's about it. I can point out exactly everything that's going on in a program so annotating a presample code I find fine... but writing my own code is another story..

Able to read Code but struggling majorly to write it

This will probably be viewed as a really stupid question. But.. I'll ask for advice on it anyway = )

I had my first programming exam recently...and well I pretty much flopped it. Did not do great at all. I have only myself to blame as outside of college time, I pretty much did nothing.

Now I have another coming up near summer time and I'm not allowing this to happen again. For a couple of weeks now I've been reading, reading and reading some more. I keep going over the older things I missed and the newer things we're doing. So, obviously I can notice a huge difference in my understanding of the language. However, that's about it. I can read the code and I now have an idea of what's going on in the code... but when it comes to me writing the code myself I'm just clueless. It's like I never know what approach to take and can never really fully comprehend the questions.

Could you guys give any tips for someone who has done a fair amount of reading (been doing around 5-6 hours for the past month or so) each day... But when opening my IDE I always feel doomed it's really demotivating. Especially because I have knowledge of nodes, lists, arraylists, interfaces ect ect but besides from reading them on a page that's about it. I can point out exactly everything that's going on in a program so annotating a presample code I find fine... but writing my own code is another story..

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Java - Able to read Code but struggling majorly to write it

This will probably be viewed as a really stupid question. But.. I'll ask for advice on it anyway = )

I had my first programming exam for Java recently...and well I pretty much flopped it, did not do great at all. Only myself to blame as outside College time, I pretty much done nothing.

Now I have another coming up near Summer time and I'm not allowing this to happen again. For a couple of weeks now I've been reading, reading and reading some more. I keep going over the older things I missed ect and the newer things we're doing. So, obviously I can notice a huge difference in my understanding of Java. However, that's about it. I can read the code and I now have an idea of what's going on in the code...but when it comes to me writing the code myself I'm just clueless. It's like I never know what approach to take and can never really fully comprehend the questions.

Could you guys give any tips for someone who has done a fair amount of reading ( been doing around 5-6 hours for the past month or so ) each day...But when opening Eclipse I always feel doomed it's really demotivating. Especially because I have knowledge of nodes, lists, arraylists, interfaces ect ect but besides from reading them on a page that's about it. I can point out exactly everything that's going on in a program so annotating a presample code I find fine... but writing my own code is another story..