The headline is a desperate attempt at making a Java joke, anyway... I had my Java Practicals Final Exam today.

So what program did I have to do?  The question was ambiguous and when I read it I had no idea what it meant!  It simply said Create a dialog box of user choice type.  Once I clarified it with the lecturer, I knew what it actually meant.  What I had to do was to give the user a choice and depending on what he chose, I had to pop up either a modal (a dialog box that doesn't allow you to click on the window that popped it up, unless you close it) or modeless (that which is not modal) dialog box.  I had never actually made a dialog box in Java in my life, but I had an idea of how to do it.  So with a little bit of "thinking on my feet" I made a window with a menu and depending on what the person clicked I would show an appropriate dialog box.  I was done with it quite soon, and I came home by 2:30 PM.  Now the nice thing about all this is that on 30th, I have another Practical Exam (that's on Visual Basic and Visual C++), and it will be the LAST Practicals final exam I will ever write in Engineering (because in the next semester we have only two subjects and they're both theory subjects)!

Since we're on the subject of coffee (what with all the talk about Java), I have started making espresso coffee at home again.  I usually make a cup of coffee for myself in the evenings, and for a long time now I was just mixing all the stuff together and heating it.  But recently I have become a bit more patient and I'm making it the way I used to - the reason I started liking coffee in the first place!  Surprising what a little beating of coffee, sugar and a bit of water will do!