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Thanks for the kind words and I appreciate that! As it happens I'm converting the podcast which is on Spotify to a video version which starts to drop next week, so will bear that in mind - good idea! I'm thinking of adding shownotes which cover the key concepts, so would probably put code snippets in there to get the best of both worlds. Have a good day! ;)

Thanks - pleased you liked it! ;)

You can use Homebrew yes, but I prefer sdkman since it gives you autonomy over the whole Java-based set of tools in that ecosystem. Also, I've had issues with Brew before where it doesn't play well with multi-user accounts too (so for me, it's not worth it). I do use brew for other stuff though and for single user machines, it's an excellent way of adding in more swiss army knife type linux utils.

No problem - I'm pleased you enjoyed it, thanks!

Hey Anubhav, thanks! I'm pleased it helped! ;)

C++ is traditionally more for higher performance apps or apps that need to be "lower level" in terms of closer to the hardware. So for example, anywhere where you need to access the hardware of a device or really squeeze out that last 1% of performance, you'd go with C or C++ (with C++ being basically C but with OO added on top). So you'll find that C++ is good for high performance video intensive games, or 3D modelling, rendering etc. and also used in an "embedded" way for device drivers etc. Java though is easier to learn, has a wealth of libraries available for it (which means code you don't need to write yourself) and is the language of choice for most corporates. In terms of performance vs ease of use and all round general purposeness - I'd go with Java over C++. Hope that helps!

Thanks - I really appreciate it and pleased it helped! ;)

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Java has some support for AI machine learning - there are a few libraries available, but yes Python leads the way as far as AI goes currently and has a far richer set of libraries for that (pandas and tensorflow etc.). However, the debugging support you get in IDEs and in the Python landscape is pretty poor compared to Java. I remember debugging a memory issue and in Python it was no way as easy as it is in Java. But if you want to go down the AI ML route, Python would be the direction!

Thanks for the nice words, I appreciate it! ;)

Hi there, you can set the classpath as an environment variable, yes. However, typically the classpath is defined when you run the Java app by passing the classpath in via a "commandline switch". e.g. java -cp lib1.jar;lib2.jar;lib3.jar com.javeasily.apps.MyApp. Hope that helps! ;)

Hey, thanks! So to answer your question, you can technically code whatever you like in Java, but to produce games you really need a proper games development platform: so something with a physics engine, inbuilt support for 2D and 3D gameplay etc, and that leaves you with 2 main options currently. There's Unity which is a games platform where the main language is C# (this is from .NET - and it's pretty close to Java so super simple for a Java dev to pick up). Alternatively, there's the Unreal engine where the language is C++. To be honest, unless you need superfast rendering, and if you already know Java, then Unity is your best bet. It's got everything you need out of the box, but has a bit of a learning curve. So I'd go the Unity way if I were you. That being said, if you want to write in Java - go for it! - just know you'll have to write a lot of it from scratch. But hey, Minecraft was written in Java and - wouldn't you know! - that's the number 1 game of all time. So it's certainly possible! Whatever you decide, good luck my friend and thanks for the comment! ;)

@@javaeasily4803 I don't have words to thank you in return sir. I really appreciate your kindness to help this newbie in the CSE field and again very very very thank you for your guidance sir 🙏🙏🙏

No problem, any time. I'm pleased it helped! ;)

True, but it's important to know the basics so I think it's super useful to know about these kinds of things!

Thank you so much, that's really appreciated! Will do!

Technically, you can pretty much do anything you like with Java, so yes you could! Most things like that are done with languages which are closer to the hardware though to make them much quicker, like C/C++. So it depends if speed is really a factor or not.

Glad it helped!

Thanks! Yes sure, it's a Blue Yeti - they're pretty bulky but the quality is great!

Thanks, pleased you liked it!

Hi Bogdan! Fun fact - did you know that the number 1 game in the world, Minecraft, is actually written in Java! That being said though, the Java platform isn't really designed for games development - you're much better off using a game creation platform like Unity: this has all the elements of a great games development platform built in (supporting 3D rendering, scene creation, physics engines etc). So whereas you could create a game in Java, you'd have to build a lot of stuff yourself to do the stuff that a proper games development platform would give you out of the box. With Unity I believe the language is C# which was based loosely on Java anyway to it should be easy enough to pick up if you know Java already. Hope that helps!

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What matters is not the tool, but how you use the tool.

Thanks for the show of support - it's really appreciated! ;)

You can put them in a shared library if you'd like for sure, but if you do that then you'll have annotations on them which are related to persistence, so it's not ideal. Typically you'd have a library like that implementing just your domain objects, use something like Lombok to take away the boilerplate code you need (getters and setters etc), then you could use something like MapStruct or doxer to do the grunt work of copying from your persistent POJOs to your domain POJOs. Hope that helps!

No problem, pleased it helped! ;)

Thanks Justin - I appreciate it! Will definitely make the audio clearer in future videos too - pleased it helped! ;)

Hey Neeraj - thanks for commenting! Do you mean how to run an app from within Maven? Or do you mean how to create a package?