If you are using winforms, why not build a calculator application. Very simple, easy to get working and will show a few fundamentals.

I've come across worse. We had a programmer once that did a

select * from table

and then looped through the results until he found what he was looking for. Funnily enough, performance was OK on his test database, not so good on a production customer database.

I have previously written applications that don't use ORM, but did use it in a recent project. I disagree with most of the others, in that I found it very beneficial to use. It doesn't stop you doing other stuff if you need to, but makes many aspects of database interaction much, much easier. In my case it was the entity framework I used.

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