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Where did you learn coding?
What is the biggest source of what you know now?
United States Member #61881 May 21, 2008 149 Posts Offline |
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I went to College for Computer Science & Engineering, picked most of it up there. Used to program a bit in high school on the Ti-86 calculator while bored in class. The rest I picked up on the job as a Software Engineer / Application Developer.
I use C# Windows Apps for my Lotto junk, the language has quite a bit of functionality and is quite similar to C++. With a nice Visual Studio development environment, hammering out applications with nice displays and organization isn't nearly as difficult to accomplish as it is in C++. Besides, most of my actual work these days is on web based applications, so we write everything in C# .NET.
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United States Member #13375 March 30, 2005 1016 Posts Offline |
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Wow, yeah - I don't think I've done any real coding since end of 1999 or beginning of 2000... Except for the excel stuff but that's not really coding it's more like gentle manipulation of weak formulas... lol, Pogo You can do a great deal with the Visual Basic, in Excel. Those formulas can get surprisingly elaborate. Prince of Insufficient Light ~ Ruler of Heck
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Chief Bottle Washer New Jersey United States Member #1 May 31, 2000 14934 Posts Online |
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I've just bought MS Visual Studio 2008 Professional. Perhaps I will "get the sparkle back". I've been using VS2008 for about a year now, and I feel confident saying it's the best development environment and languages I have ever used. And I have used most of them. (I probably know about 16-18 computer languages fairly fluently.)
It is such a powerful set of tools, and they take the drudgery out of common, detail-oriented tasks. For example, creating a Windows service has never been easier.
Plus, the .NET 3.5 language enhancements are just dynamite. I use them whenever I can.
Good luck with getting that sparkle back! 
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The Mathematical Alpha Geek Waukesha, WI United States Member #21 December 7, 2001 1628 Posts Offline |
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I've just bought MS Visual Studio 2008 Professional. Perhaps I will "get the sparkle back". I've had VS 2008 PRO for a month or so... it's kick azs.
There is so much that can be done that I had to go out and buy additional books on 'how to' and 'self instruction' beyond my VB6 knowledge.
In addition to learning C++, I'll be learning C# and many subheadings under each language.
I love the integration of different programming platforms in one easy IDE. My Self Picks are optimized to produce
the most number of wins with
the least amount of effort.
Order is a subset of Chaos.
Thank You,
Doug
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United States Member #61881 May 21, 2008 149 Posts Offline |
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VS 2008 is the way to go. We've been using it at work for some time now. We're a C# shop mainly, but also frequently use VB, Java, JavaScript, SQL, etc etc.
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roanoke United States Member #62316 June 6, 2008 424 Posts Offline |
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