My favorite name for my test or prototype projects in any platform is 'Codename Xero'. And we always have a code name for our project, some living examples are 'Mark 6', RubberDuck, HummingBird, LazyDog, AlleyCat, Glue etc. :) I would like to see some code names from the members as well.

You are welcome friend :) Happy coding.

Hello again, Chandan, and sorry for a late reply. Its good to know that you are coming back to programming, and don't worry about your age, it doesn't matter here, you can always do something which you love :) If you have done C/C++ in past then you should really jump into C# as soon as you can. Just take *ANY* C# book and read it all, from title to index. Then you need a copy of C# Black Book (http://www.amazon.com/Black-Book-Comprehensive-Problem-Paraglyph/dp/1932111174) on you desk when you start coding... and when you are fluent with the language, you wont possibly need anything, there is plenty of help and this huge community on internet to solve *any* problem you might have. Get a copy of VS 2010 Express and you are in! good luck ;)

We were using 8088 Assembly and i was using simple "jmp" instruction which has limitation to +/- 127 bytes. And i forgot to mention that my this 65K lines of code produced an executable of only 3.5K bytes... how about that? :-D Cheers

Thank you ChandanPatra, much appreciated :) Well i am a software architect now, (and yes, still happily coding) and this was some 16-17 years ago. I have been extensively coding in C those days and C# and is my first choice now. I only used assembly as a learning tool for to know goes on under-the-hood when you use high level languages. Even in doing micro-controller programming, I have used C and not much assembly as it takes much time and effort to do even basic tasks. Assembly is easy to learn if you are determined, and there are many resources online to get started. And you are right, companies look for high-level language programmers because they want to make things happen fast. More than 90% of developers are coding for business oriented applications using high-level languages and RAD tools and only a few select groups use low-level languages, mostly for research oriented projects, for example super fast algorithms. I'm mostly into integration-specific projects now but will be happy to share my experiences if anyone asks :) Cheers.

LOLz :-D

I remember in around 1993 I was on an assembly language final project when I wrote around 65 thousand lines of code to replicate a text editor of Norton Commander. I successfully copied 98% of the functionality and 100% of the look and feel that NC Editor offered... and yes I got full marks on my project ;P The coding horror part: I didn't know the "jump far" instruction :| yes! imaging that! and I had to jump through a chain of labels to go far in my code! It was only when my brilliant professor[^] told me in the final presentation and viva, that I could have used the "jump far" instruction to tidy up the code. I had backup of the code on a 3.5" floppy which i don't know where i lost in time, but i still have a print out of the code in the Project Report file. Good ol' days! :-D Sohail Iqbal

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