So, sure, I can probably write anything I need to do using C and the Win32 API, but knowing C# and all its wizard-auto-generation could be useful for the times when I want to slap together a program for my own use and only have an hour to spare. (This way I also don’t have to worry about distribution of the .NET runtime bloatware.) I’m choosing this over Visual C++ because as far as I can tell the MFC is basically just C++ class wrappers around the Win32 API, which I’m learning anyway. Although, for this purpose, VB.NET might work as well.
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How I did it: I have written two projects recently using VS 2008, C# & .NET 3.5. Although I'm preety Microsoft-fobic, I must painfully admit that both language and .NET framework are better designed than Java equivalents. So, Bill Gates rulz, unfortunately, and I'm afraid that in the future we'll see even more projects depending on Microsoft OSes.
Lessons & tips: MSDN library is nice. If you are familiar with object-oriented programming paradigm, you should be able to understand c# easily. The .NET framework itself is designed quite naturally in my opinion, and most classes are where they're intuitevely supposed to be.
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Took a class that required learning C#. It’s an well-designed language, and it addresses a lot of flaws with Java. If I still used Windows, C# would be my language of choice for native application development.
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work, i’ll be able to command a higher salary
pcyclepath out of here :)
For now my challenge is to progress in my own career, so I’ve been studying to update my skills and hope to get new certification this Summer. Perhaps once this is done I’ll look into programming again. Not sure.
Kasia loves life no matter how hard it gets
I need this because I’m taking IT/Computer Science as my A-levels subject. [I’m also taking Math, Polish and English – all but Polish on the advanced level, Polish is compulsory though, so I’m taking only the basic level as I cannot skip it].
Pascal looks quite easy and so I believe it is – I can’t get discouraged so early because I have only a year to get ‘fluent’ and feel confident about it. Is a year enough to learn programming with all these fancy algorithms, about databases in Access and SQL, about all computer devices and parts, history of computers and cryptology and so on?
I guess I’ll need some extra classes because I need to be supergood at this. 70% is not what I’m aiming to achieve… I want to be a programmer, and a female programmer so I need to be REALLY good to prove that a girl can be a good programmer… and this is the hard point…
Well, I am slowly putting together a basic knowledge of the language so far. I have taken a few lessons online to gain some sort of a grasp of the language. It’s tough since my last programming experience was with BASIC when I was in grade school and I opted to learn that over playing pac man or oregon trails.
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Actually i cant come up with anything to comment this with… I have very little knowledge about C# except it being an OOP-language
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