Background and beginning

If you read my previous post, you know that I recently spent a good deal of time debugging a Java build of a program. Not a bug in the Java code, but a bug in gradle, my build environment. Specifically, in my gradle build file: build.gradle.kts.

After going through that problem, I spent time, finally, not pursuing more programming, but learning how gradle’s build operated instead. So, this is a summary of that learning. Sorry, it’s going to be a bit long. But, first, I need to take a minute to go over background things so that we are all on the same page. If you read my post about writing and compiling a Hello World! program in C and in Java , you will know what a basic Java program looks like. You will also see that, in theory, you can compile a Java class with javac MyMain.java into a program.

A sleeping build time bug arises

I haven’t written in a while. Sorry. It’s hot here and I’ve been spending extra time working on the adventure game . I sat down to start writing some of the unit tests for the game. I wanted to do one simple one and test to see if everything built and tested correctly. I always do things in code incrementally; a little at a time and test. Sometimes, it seems pedantic, but it pays off. Though it was not expected to fail, JUnit pushed a failure during testing that hadn’t been there when no tests were available.

Not as expected

I didn’t get much accomplished this weekend on my adventure game. While I did manage to get a ContainerThing class created, the next step kind of failed miserably.

ContainerThing was added as a descendent of the Thing:w class so that we can have chests and sacks; things that have to be opened and closed before user access. That all went pretty well. I did have to adapt to using instanceof in order to access the isOpenable field and the open() and close() methods. But it worked out.

First steps in programming

Now, that we have all the background covered, I want to show you the beginnings of programming. I will be showing you the steps to build and run the ubiquitous “Hello World” program in both C and Java. The C version will use the C99 standard ( though it matches most standards as well ) and the Java version will use Java 17 ( though it will likely run in whichever Java you have ). These two language standards will be where I will work as I write more posts.

A New Beginning - Again

Hi, I am tardis1 and, yes, I am a Whovian, but I am also many other things as well.

Yes, this is a new beginning for the TARDIS Server Project. I have made several of these over the years, but they all lacked something. Maybe this time will be different.

I grew up as a child during the Gemini and Apollo space flights. Like many others of that era, I wanted to be an astronaut. However, my poor vision ruined that by the time I was a teenager. Yet, there were still space things I could participate in. One of those was computers.