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GaryWoodfine

Being a good Developer or Programmer, takes a long time, and I'm not surprised that you're still consulting documentation after a year, I still consult documentation after 15 years. It takes a great deal of patience,practice, tenacity, study, discipline, understanding and hours and hours of work to be a good developer. I found the best way to learn how to program is to read another developers code, study it , understand it, and attempt to refactor it, Improve it and re write it in your own way. That way you will get get a better unserstanding of syntax, and structure and concepts I for one have developed Notepad, Calculator in a myriad of different programming languages from C++, VB, C#, Java, VB.NET ...... and every time I learn something new, a concept that I can take forward I hang out here on codeproject because it is a great resource to have look at other developers source code, and to learn! I submit articles here, because I want my code reviewed by my peers, so I can learn something, and hopefully another developer will learn from me. A true programmer never stops learning! I have been programming (proffessionally , if that what you call it) for 15 years now, and every day I learn something new!! -- modified at 6:24 Wednesday 27th September, 2006

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Lost User

cykophysh39 wrote:

I found the best way to learn how to program is to read another developers code, study it , understand it, and attempt to refactor it, Improve it and re write it in your own way. That way you will get get a better unserstanding of syntax, and structure and concepts

And there are many sources, obviously the Code Project tutorials, and repositories for open-source projects such as http://sourceforge.net/[^]

Lost User

Regarding your last post in the recent spat with Henize in the Soapbox and the advice you gave in the Hardware forum 2 days ago, I for one would be interested in seeing Code Project articles from you that address the issues (from Basic to Advanced) in device drivers and the like.

Lost User

Seriously? You want me to write articles on device drivers? I am flattered! But arent there a number of articles already on CP regharding this? I had a look some time back and they looked at first glance informative and well written. If you really want to know driver though, dont lok to CP, buy Walter Oneys book, Programming the Windows Driver Model. Best 50$ you will ever spend.

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Ray Cassick

Do not let this worry you. Being smart on a subject quite often does not mean 'knowing it all' as much as it means 'knowing what you don't now and then where and how to find it'.

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Lost User

Flattery was not intended. If you have a story to tell, then I am sure there are many who would like to hear it. You quote a good reference :)

GaryWoodfine

Richard A. Abbott wrote:

Regarding your last post in the recent spat with Henize in the Soapbox and the advice you gave in the Hardware forum 2 days ago, I for one would be interested in seeing Code Project articles from you that address the issues (from Basic to Advanced) in device drivers and the like.

ME spat with who? You sure it was me? Who's Henize? Was I in the soapbox? 2 Days ago?? My Minds gone blank? I'll have to Defrag and get back to you :confused: :):cool:

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Lost User

Sounds like CP is posting at random again. R Abbots e-mail post was in response to one of mine.

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GaryWoodfine

OK So I can stop thinking of Device drivers now then!! I was trying to think what device I could write a driver for!! Phew!!!;P

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Lost User

cykophysh39, my comment to you, which was in response to your excellent comments above, was locations to find open source projects for studying purposes. The spat I referred to was here [^].

GaryWoodfine

Ok Not Guilty :-) For open source project I gues you could try www.sourceforge.net. I have had junior developers that I pointed to www.planetsourcecode.com and of course on here, there are plenty of talented individuals on this site, who write some really good stuff!, I have learnt alot from this site alone

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Christian Graus

OK, then intellisense should help you out a fair bit, although you still need to look up all those constants. I still need to do the same, for a lot of the APIs I don't use so often.

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