Dear checkmate, I really appreciate ur such a nice mail. I was a bit down finding no reply from ur end, thinking that advanced users like U may be wasting ur time after me. I am truly glad that u replied. I accepted all ur suggestions, will surely do it. Thanks and regards .. Chandan

Thanks for ur beautiful reply. My name is Chandan Patra, I stay at Kolkata, India, I am almost a novice in true sense, being a Commerce Graduate I still find programming a great entertainer, and I just love it. I had Learned C some five years back, but got a job in Life Insurance industry [far away from programming].. Now desperately trying to come back to join the IT at this age of 30.. but opportunities are only for Computer engineers. But I want to start it over again... Now joined a company where I do some VB6 coding, Revising my C/C++ books.. need suggestion from your end... What I should be learning immediately in order to survive and be a part of good programmers community? Really looking forward to your answers.

I am very much new to this forum, Just wanted to salute you for the fact that U had managed to learn Assembly. I know C, but assembly was never my cup of tea. Maybe I didn't try it that much. Now-a-days, companies usually look for only high level language programmers. I work on Vb6, but .NET is almost everywhere. There's no end to learning. Hope u are into system programming. Would like to hear more from you in order to learn. Thanks.