How long have you been coding Java/jMonkey?

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Just curious to see how long some of the veterans having been doing Java and jMonkey.

For me 6 months Java, 1 month jMonkey

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My first full sized Java project was in 1998 or so. Soā€¦ a long time.

I first used JME in 2006 but only played around. Didnā€™t get back to it until 2011. Back in 2006, I was already deep into using a different OpenGL-based scene graph for my day job (OpenSceneGraph) and so JME was just something to play with in my off time.

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@pspeed said: My first full sized Java project was in 1998 or so. So... a long time.

I first used JME in 2006 but only played around. Didnā€™t get back to it until 2011. Back in 2006, I was already deep into using a different OpenGL-based scene graph for my day job (OpenSceneGraph) and so JME was just something to play with in my off time.

Thats incredible!

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21 months in Java, 11 months in JME3. But Iā€™ve been writing software since 1979 which helps.

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2 years 9 months with jME (dam time flies!), java about the same (maybe a month earlier)

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Iā€™m with java since i was 14, it was 13 years ago. :slight_smile: And with JMonkey since 2011 after Ogre, Torque and DXStudio. About programming I started with pascal and then C++ 17 years ago.

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java - somewhere in 2010
jm3 - first contact in 2011, but noticed it was too early to hope to acomplish something with it yet. So now early 2014 I came back with more experience and working on a little project to get used to the engine before attacking the real thing.

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Well i started in Garrysmod (9) to programm game stuff, then extended that to a larger gamemode based on spacebuild + rpg elements,
got pissed at the limitation of the source engine, and moved to a more flexible solution.
This was when JME2 was the current, so somewhere around 2008-2009. I started learning java then as well.

By now I would have several smaller games released, if it were not for me following that mmo goal (basically itā€™s still the same game idea since garrysmod), and ignoring the adivice to start small ^^ XD

But good sideeffects are various job relevant skills, and motivation to study informatics(+economy)

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Java - 1995 (started with HotJava alpha 3, it became ā€œjavaā€ only from beta version of JDK).
JME - somewhere around 2004 probably (at least this is first code contribution I can find). Of course, had a long break in meantime.

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Coding Java since 98ā€™ or so, Java 1.2 was a new thing to me :wink: Looked into jME(2) around 2006 but I was only playing around with it and lurking on the forums until 2009.

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What is Java?

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  1. Not sure
  2. For a while now

I canā€™t remember what I just had for breakfastā€¦ trying to recall something like this just makes my brain hurt worse than usual.

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Started with Java at faculty in 2005.
Started with JME in 2009. We are in ā€˜on and offā€™ relationship. :slight_smile:

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My first Java lines were written in 2007.

Wrote my first JME lines in 2008. Funny thing is that I had no other choice. The engines at this time where hilarious expensive or overcomplicated (the ogre guys started their tutorial with: yes, we know that this documentation is extremely huge.) and also the only language I knew was Java. So JME2 was the smallest evil I could find.

2010 I tried JME3 and this was a really cool moment. Especially the strange material system was thrown away and replaced by a solution that was way easier to understand. So congrats for that. Its a quite nice piece of work.

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java since 2005
jmonkey since about a little over a year ago.

still no games

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Java for 6-7 years, 4Ā½ of them professionally. jME for 2Ā½ years on and off.

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I discovered JMonkey when it was version 2. So I guess that makes it a few years.

Iā€™ve been doing java since about 2006. Nearly a decade. The time just flies by :slight_smile:

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I started with Java on my spare time in 2006 (during summer vacation) after having programmed AMOS during my teens (which would be the mid 90s). Optimistic as I am, I started using JME2 in 2007, which was way too soon.
I went full-time Java developer in late 2008 and used JME2 on and off. Started using JME3 seriously in late 2010.

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Hey you guys,
I feel old when I answer this question!!! :facepalm:

I have been coding Java since University days in 1998 ā€œOUCHā€!
And I have been coding jME since Ā± 2002.

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@ndebruyn said: Hey you guys, I feel old when I answer this question!!! :facepalm:

I have been coding Java since University days in 1998 ā€œOUCHā€!
And I have been coding jME since Ā± 2002.

Hehehā€¦ well, then I feel really old. I only shared my Java coding time. I started writing BASIC programs at age 10, circa 1981 or so. I did C and ASM professionally for the better part of a decade before getting to play with Java for real. For my first real Java project, Java 1.2 was still in early betas. I still remember having to convert the Swing package names as that evolved.

Good times.