Wow I wasn't expecting the author to respond! Hi~ I think I will go back and really look into those chapter review tests in detail. Though I only got 60%, I learned a lot. I'll shoot for higher scores.
Better builds with Maven - great I'll look into that. I guess I just need a project. We work a lot with Powershell at my job. I'm thinking about making a
Java program that somehow interfaces with that.
I hacked this program together in one night after reading this book. This is one of my first programs ever, be gentle:
https://github.com/tr4v1sty/TriageRotator
It cycles through a list of people and keeps track of tasks given. It asks to add/remove people to the list when you first run it. I made it with IntelliJ, compiled it into a JAR. Learned a lot doing that! Wouldn't have been able to write this before reading the book, for sure!