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haha thanks everyone, you are great helps, so i will start with C# tomorro
Benjamin Dodd
What type of applications can be made in C# i have heard about this language, it is really advanced, does anyone have experience with this language??
Benjamin Dodd
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Luc Pattyn wrote:
don't waste your time on an old language such as VB6
Been trying to tell him :)
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Paul Conrad wrote:
trying
just a little bit of psychology is all that was required :-D
Luc Pattyn
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What type of applications can be made in C# i have heard about this language, it is really advanced, does anyone have experience with this language??
Benjamin Dodd
Hi, The number of messages in the C# forum far exceeds the number in the VB forum. That may indicate there are more people interested, more application possible, but also more questions, or maybe more problems. I suggest you read some of the messages and make up your own mind on this. I for one have been using just C# (and plain C for native stuff) since I started using .NET, although I have been using VB long long ago. And yes I do read messages in other forums too, most problems are not really language specific anyway. :)
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Hi, The number of messages in the C# forum far exceeds the number in the VB forum. That may indicate there are more people interested, more application possible, but also more questions, or maybe more problems. I suggest you read some of the messages and make up your own mind on this. I for one have been using just C# (and plain C for native stuff) since I started using .NET, although I have been using VB long long ago. And yes I do read messages in other forums too, most problems are not really language specific anyway. :)
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ok thank you, ill go in the other forum later, i came in this one to ask about VB 6. Thanks
Benjamin Dodd
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What type of applications can be made in C# i have heard about this language, it is really advanced, does anyone have experience with this language??
Benjamin Dodd
Benjamin Dodd wrote:
What type of applications can be made in C# i have heard about this language
Just about any as in any other language.
Benjamin Dodd wrote:
it is really advanced
Nahhh, it's pretty straightforward. Advanced for a beginner like yourself, but the marketable skill set you get from it is far better than VB6 :rolleyes:
"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese" - anonymous, found in Uncle John's Bathroom Reader
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ok, and nice quote. I use VB 6 because i am a beginner and find it easy, once i get better at coding i will use C++ or soming along those lines. What language are you best with?
Benjamin Dodd
VB 6 is infinitely more of a pain to learn compared to vb.net. And by learning vb6 you will be learning methods that are out of date. Many coding practices are now spread across the board for languages because they all use the .net framework. That said, vb.net basically uses syntax to call bits of C++. So VB.net is a great stepping stone to more complex languages.
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haha :( i jus bought the VB 6 book, :( and that comment is not funny haha, you are a Genius hehe, you know lots of languages, im only 16, what do u suggest i use to program, i used C++ some time ago i have the books for that. Just found it a bit ahrd after a while. Any suggestions
Benjamin Dodd
Benjamin Dodd wrote:
that comment is not funny
Actually, it is very funny. You are just upset because you made a wrong choice and it cost you money. We all do that from time-to-time. Get over it. It won't be the last time that happens. Heck the worst choice I ever made cost me £25K ($50K US) so just be glad it only cost you the price of an out-of-date book.
Benjamin Dodd wrote:
you know lots of languages, im only 16
At 16 I'd been programming for 7 years. A better argument would have been length of time writing software. And, you did ask what programming languages people knew, so you had to expect some sort of answer like that. For the record my answer would be: Basic, Comal, Cobol, C, C++, Magik, SQL, C#, VB.NET. And a whole host of other languages I've long since forgotten because they've become obsolete or I just don't use them.
Benjamin Dodd wrote:
i used C++ some time ago i have the books for that. Just found it a bit ahrd after a while
C++ is quite hard compared to any flavour of basic becuase it is closer to the machine, so you have to think more like the machine does.
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Benjamin Dodd wrote:
you know lots of languages
Awww, shucks :) I started programming when I was 9 and that was almost 26 years ago. Since you just got a VB6 book, carry on. I'd get the fundamentals down, and move on to C++/C#.
Benjamin Dodd wrote:
ust found it a bit ahrd after a while
What is so hard about C++? Object Oriented Programming? MFC?
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Paul Conrad wrote:
I started programming when I was 9
Hey! Me too!!! :-D
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ok wow thats alot, i have used BASIC before when i installed it in school haha, it was quite good however went swiftly on to VB 2005 express edition then i couldnt get the book for that version, so i switched to VB 6, and before BASIC me and a friends used to use C++ in school to make .exe files and just play around with C++ really, thanks for your help i will contiuse with VB 6 however at the same time i shall learn C++. I hope i have more luck with C++ this time around haha i'm sure doing a level math will help me with this I want to learn at least 5 programming languages before i die hehe This is including JAVA whith at the moment i know nothing about.
Benjamin Dodd
Benjamin Dodd wrote:
I want to learn at least 5 programming languages before i die
Given the way technology moves on you are most likely to achieve that before leaving university. Apparently the upcoming languages of choice are functional languages like ML[^], which has actually been around since the 1970s. Microsoft Research are doing a lot of work with functional languages and they could becoming mainstream sometime in the next few years.
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What type of applications can be made in C# i have heard about this language, it is really advanced, does anyone have experience with this language??
Benjamin Dodd
Benjamin Dodd wrote:
What type of applications can be made in C# i have heard about this language, it is really advanced, does anyone have experience with this language??
Pretty much any type of application. Web applications, desktop applications, mobile applications (with the compact .NET Framework), games (you need also the XNA framework for that), window services, web services and a whole bunch of other things. There are a lot of people with experience in C#, there is a C# forum here at CP and a lot of articles are written for C#.
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Benjamin Dodd wrote:
that comment is not funny
Actually, it is very funny. You are just upset because you made a wrong choice and it cost you money. We all do that from time-to-time. Get over it. It won't be the last time that happens. Heck the worst choice I ever made cost me £25K ($50K US) so just be glad it only cost you the price of an out-of-date book.
Benjamin Dodd wrote:
you know lots of languages, im only 16
At 16 I'd been programming for 7 years. A better argument would have been length of time writing software. And, you did ask what programming languages people knew, so you had to expect some sort of answer like that. For the record my answer would be: Basic, Comal, Cobol, C, C++, Magik, SQL, C#, VB.NET. And a whole host of other languages I've long since forgotten because they've become obsolete or I just don't use them.
Benjamin Dodd wrote:
i used C++ some time ago i have the books for that. Just found it a bit ahrd after a while
C++ is quite hard compared to any flavour of basic becuase it is closer to the machine, so you have to think more like the machine does.
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
Actually, it is very funny.
Thank you, it makes me laugh everyday :rolleyes:
Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
You are just upset because you made a wrong choice and it cost you money.
Bingo! Likewise, I've made mistakes before and have rolled with the punch and move on...
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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Paul Conrad wrote:
I started programming when I was 9
Hey! Me too!!! :-D
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
Hey! Me too!!!
And I'm only 15 months to the day, older than you, so we can pretty much say we've both been programming for about as long :)
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
Hey! Me too!!!
And I'm only 15 months to the day, older than you, so we can pretty much say we've both been programming for about as long :)
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
Sure, once you've been going that long what's a year here or there! :-D
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Sure, once you've been going that long what's a year here or there! :-D
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Exactly, we could just say we've been programming for over a quarter of a century :eek:
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haha :( i jus bought the VB 6 book, :( and that comment is not funny haha, you are a Genius hehe, you know lots of languages, im only 16, what do u suggest i use to program, i used C++ some time ago i have the books for that. Just found it a bit ahrd after a while. Any suggestions
Benjamin Dodd
Benjamin Dodd wrote:
i jus bought the VB 6 book,
It's not necessarily entirely wasted in that the Microsoft Office applications still use the VB 6 language in the form of VBA. So if you want to be an Excel macro developer... Still, Microsoft is now pushing Visual Studio Tools for Office as the recommended toolset for such things.
Kevin