Re: Is there an easy way to find the right class?

Farcus Pottysquirt wrote:
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I use Eclipse and Netbeans as my IDE's so I am familiar with them. I enjoy the fact that both IDE's attempt to provide suggestions as to what I am trying to do...but what if I was sitting down with only a pad of paper, a pencil (with an eraser) and a reference like Java In a Nutshell (O'Reilly) how would I find the class/package I need without looking at each and every one until I find it?

I have programmed with a pad of paper, a pencil, an eraser, and a paper
reference. I worked that way for several years - in the 1970's. The
languages were much simpler, so I could read the complete documentation,
and the paper book could tell me everything I needed to know, not just a
useless summary.

Why on earth would anyone be programming that way in the twenty-first
century, in a language with a rich API and a lot of additional packages
that can be downloaded?

Patricia
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