One small thing you could do to help would be to review the difference
between "away" and "always" and use the right one at the right time.

No offense meant.

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Grammar Cop

"Upholding the rules of English grammar since 2006"

Congratulations!

I think helping out on the comp.lang.java.* newsgroups would be good
practice for you and would also help the newbies here. Working through
problems posted here is bound to help you learn more about Java and what
people do with it in the real world.

Just dive in and answer questions when you know the answer. I don't mean
that you should necessarily write code; many questions can be answered by
pointing people to a resource at the Sun site or elsewhere online or
suggesting a Google Groups search of the archives for the comp.lang.java.*
newsgroups.

That's the way life is sometimes; we don't always get answers and, even if
we do get an answer, it isn't always the one we expect. But both cases can
still be very educational.

If you get no answer at all, it frequently means that you didn't ask a good
question. Once you realize that, you can learn how to ask better questions;
eventually you will ask a question well enough that people can answer you.
The ability to ask a good question is a very useful skill; I wish more of
the people on Usenet had it. It would certainly reduce frustration among
both the questioners and the responders if everyone could ask a clear,
answerable question!

An unexpected answer can also be very very helpful. I remember once spending
hours and hours trying to write Java code that would round decimal numbers
to any precision I liked, such as to the nearest hundredth (.001) or
thousandth (.0001). I had the code mostly working but some cases gave me
trouble so I posted some code fragments asking for ideas on how to fix my
problems. Rather than suggesting a small fix that would solve my problem,
someone pointed out that my entire approach was wrong: I was manipulating
the numbers as Strings and should have been manipulating them as numbers.
They gave an example of the right approach; suddenly, I realized that hours
and hours of coding could be discarded and some simple arithmetic would do
what I wanted, easily and accurately. I ended up with much better code as a
result.

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Just dive right into it - 'participate' in the group by discussing
stuff in the forum - better to seek pardon than permission.... ;)

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Arvind