Questions for Senior Project

Question

Hey guys,
For my senior project, I chose Programming in Java. However, my school requires that I interview 5 people on the topic, and let's face it, it can be hard to find programmers to interview in person.
However, I also have the option to do an "Email Interview"..Granted, this is not exactly email, but I believe it's the most direct way of trying to find people to interview.
So, the requirements state a minimum of five interviews...If anyone would be willing to spare a few minutes and answer the five questions below, it will be greatly appreciated.
A Little About You, The Programmer...
Question 1: How many years of experience do you have with programming in Java?
Question 2: How many hours a week do you program in Java?
Question 3: What is the biggest self-completed program you have coded, and if possible, include a brief description?
Now To The Questoins...
Question 4: What concept of programming in Java would you say is most important when programming?
Question 5: What online reference do you find yourself using most often when a Java related question surfaces?
Question 6: What graphics package would you recommend when working with 2D game programming?
Question 7: When saving information into files, what forms of encryption do you believe should be in place to prevent an outside source from viewing the sensitive information?
Question 8: Is there any way, in your opinion, to reduce overhead caused by implementing the SWING package into your program?
That's it. Please post your answers by replying to this or emailing [email protected] . Thank you in advance.
Mike

Answer 1

Question 1: How many years of experience do you have
with programming in Java?Hmm.. Think it's been 6 or 7 years. Since it came out.
Question 2: How many hours a week do you program in
Java?Whenever time permits inbetween meetings, and preparing documents. I would suppose about 10 to 15 hours a week would be a good week.
Question 3: What is the biggest self-completed program
you have coded, and if possible, include a brief
description?Developed a Web Based e-Learning System for about 10K students, and 100+ lecturers of a University in 1997 using Servlet API 0.9, JDBC 1.0, and Java 1.1. Hehe.. J2EE was not available then, so had to develop the entire middleware from ground up. (P.S. Anyone still remember Jigsaw from W3C ??)
Now To The Questoins...
Question 4: What concept of programming in Java would
you say is most important when programming?Proper design, and employ the proper usage of patterns.
Question 5: What online reference do you find yourself
using most often when a Java related question
surfaces?JavaDocs.
Question 6: What graphics package would you recommend
when working with 2D game programming? Not really much of a game programmer, and dun really do much front end coding. But whenever the need arises, Swing and JSPs are most likely it
Question 7: When saving information into files, what
forms of encryption do you believe should be in place
to prevent an outside source from viewing the
sensitive information?I dun usually save my information into files. Usually into the Database. But when there is a need, PGP.
Question 8: Is there any way, in your opinion, to
reduce overhead caused by implementing the SWING
package into your program?Hmm.. It is ultimately design. As crackers said, most IDEs use Swing (or SWT in the case of Eclipse). I think IDEA did a great job with IntelliJ. I am not much of a UI programmer, so can't help you out much here.
That's it. Please post your answers by replying to
this or emailing [email protected] . Thank you
in advance.
Mike