Udemy courses in Java and SQL

Over the past two years I have taken a lot of really good training courses at Udemy. It's a great way to get instructor led training on a wide variety of technology topics. From that, there are two courses that rise to the top because they are very well done and provide a wealth of information to the QA engineer. The first is a programming course. Since Java is the language of automation, I highly recommend: Java Programming Masterclass for Software Developers by Tim Buchalka You know you're in for a lot of information when the course is a staggering 80 hours of content. It covers the basics of Java, how to get it installed, picking an IDE, a quick overview of data types, and how to get your first programming running. Tim then gets into the meatier topics of classes, objects, inheritance, constructors and encapsulation. And for each topic there are plenty of code examples, exercises and demos. There […]

Damn, Java confuses the hell out of me.

Not the language itself since I don’t do any actual Java programming, but getting the environment set up. I thought I had things set up correctly with the JRE, which took for damn ever mind you. But then one of the apps I’m testing actually needs the JDK. It sounds simple enough until you go looking for the right file to install because you need a specific build number. I guess I’m just not familiar with how Java does their version numbering because I got all manner of confused. After going around in circles I finally turned to the dev guys and had them point me in the right direction. I have the JRE and the JDK installed, but it still doesn’t make any sense to me. I’m used to seeing something like 1.6.0 or something like that. Those Java kids, they gotta be all different and stuff. Now let’s see what crashes.