Day gig gave me subscription to LearnDevNow.com. It's the old AppDev
guys! Ken Getz (who did VB and/or VFP videos back in the 90s) and
Robert Green. Every time I see Robert Green's name, it makes me think
of the guy who was recommending I learn Visual InterDev at a time when
it was old and quickly becoming obsolete, and the guy who said the VFP
Report Writer would never be updated. Hmmmm....we all make mistakes.
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MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote on 2012-05-07:
> Day gig gave me subscription to LearnDevNow.com. It's the old AppDev
> guys! Ken Getz (who did VB and/or VFP videos back in the 90s) and
> Robert Green. Every time I see Robert Green's name, it makes me think
> of the guy who was recommending I learn Visual InterDev at a time when
> it was old and quickly becoming obsolete, and the guy who said the VFP
> Report Writer would never be updated. Hmmmm....we all make mistakes.
Mike,
Check out PluralSight.com too.
May your learning be quick.
Tracy Pearson
PowerChurch Software
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On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:37 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC
<mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote:
> Day gig gave me subscription to LearnDevNow.com. It's the old AppDev
> guys! Ken Getz (who did VB and/or VFP videos back in the 90s) and
> Robert Green. Every time I see Robert Green's name, it makes me think
> of the guy who was recommending I learn Visual InterDev at a time when
> it was old and quickly becoming obsolete, and the guy who said the VFP
> Report Writer would never be updated. Hmmmm....we all make mistakes.
>
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That is awesome. I used LearnVisualStudio.net when it was the other
guy in town back 2003. I got the lifetime subscription for 99.
The hardest thing I faced was thinking that VFP was like every other language.
C# is pretty wide in scope so what are you going to try to do first?
Win forms, Web forms, WPF, WCF?
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I shook hands with my husband last night and promised that by September 1st,
I too would start learning C#.
I just checked out LearnDevNow.com and the special they are running at the
moment looks very good. $99 for annual subscription instead of $349... I
might just subscribe. I've already been to http://tinyurl.com/ch768jr and
downloaded some manuals but they've been sitting on the hard drive untouched
now for ages...
Will be interested in how your fair Mike with the skills transfer - I think
that's what is holding me up from making the shift - I don't like the idea
of knowing what I "want" to do in code, but having to re-learn "how" to do
it.
Keep me posted :-)
Christina Bull
DataHouse
www.datahouse.com.au
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Subject: Started learning C# today
Day gig gave me subscription to LearnDevNow.com. It's the old AppDev guys!
Ken Getz (who did VB and/or VFP videos back in the 90s) and Robert Green.
Every time I see Robert Green's name, it makes me think of the guy who was
recommending I learn Visual InterDev at a time when it was old and quickly
becoming obsolete, and the guy who said the VFP Report Writer would never be
updated. Hmmmm....we all make mistakes.
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MB Software Solutions, LLC
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On 05/07/12 15:51, Christina Bull wrote:
> Will be interested in how your fair Mike with the skills transfer - I think
> that's what is holding me up from making the shift - I don't like the idea
> of knowing what I "want" to do in code, but having to re-learn "how" to do
> it.
Hi, Christina
Stop worrying about and just do it. Learning new syntax is a pain at
first, but it's really pretty easy. Knowing what you "want" to do in
the code is the hard part, and you've already got that whipped!
I've been doing this since 1958, through assembler, JOVIAL, COBOL,
ALGOL, APL, FORTRAN, BASIC, C, dBASE and FoxPro, and I can tell you that
while the mechanics change, the underlying job of designing a program to
do what you need to get done does not. Good luck!
Dan
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Great advice Dan! You speak sense... thanks :-)
Christina Bull
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On 05/07/12 15:51, Christina Bull wrote:
> Will be interested in how your fair Mike with the skills transfer - I
> think that's what is holding me up from making the shift - I don't
> like the idea of knowing what I "want" to do in code, but having to
> re-learn "how" to do it.
Hi, Christina
Stop worrying about and just do it. Learning new syntax is a pain at first,
but it's really pretty easy. Knowing what you "want" to do in the code is
the hard part, and you've already got that whipped!
I've been doing this since 1958, through assembler, JOVIAL, COBOL, ALGOL,
APL, FORTRAN, BASIC, C, dBASE and FoxPro, and I can tell you that while the
mechanics change, the underlying job of designing a program to do what you
need to get done does not. Good luck!
Dan
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Good luck - if you have any familiarity at all with Java or C you'll
have a headstart. .NET is a very, very broad church so don't get put off
by that fact.
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I'm not convinced by these leaning online. There is no feedback, your told
and that's it. But mainly, do you remember your first VFP lesson. Well I
believe to learn something like C# for example, you need a reason. In other
words you need to have something you want to write. This is how I did it. I
was in need of writing a web service not doable in VFP so I had to use C#.
C# is not far removed from other languages but you need to know how to do
stuff that in VFP was so easy, and C# so hard. Best way is to start a
project you need to do and find out as you go how to do it. Bing subjects
(yes I know will stop using google after I spotted that they share searches
with faceache) you need to know and even ask here. Steve is a great guy who
has helped me no end with this stuff on and off list. In other words just do
it. You will get it and if you have been programming for a while it will
make sense. But I think these online lessons will be a waste of money.
Al
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I shook hands with my husband last night and promised that by September 1st,
I too would start learning C#.
I just checked out LearnDevNow.com and the special they are running at the
moment looks very good. $99 for annual subscription instead of $349... I
might just subscribe. I've already been to http://tinyurl.com/ch768jr and
downloaded some manuals but they've been sitting on the hard drive untouched
now for ages...
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I played with C# when it first came out and got as far as linking to a
VFP com object, but then the day job intervened.
I recently decided to have another go. I bought the ms books (much
cheaper in India) - but I found them a bit daunting so I decided to
split the learning task into two parts: the syntax and the API. For a
refresher on C syntax I downloaded LCC for Windows and I was very
impressed (there is a tutorial included), for someone who learned C in
the dumb terminal days it was a real eye-opener.
For those moving from FoxPro there used to be a VFP library for C# -
anyone know if it's still available and functioning?
AndyD 8-)₹
On 07/05/2012 22:58, Stephen Russell wrote:
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:37 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC
> <mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote:
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> The hardest thing I faced was thinking that VFP was like every other
> language. C# is pretty wide in scope so what are you going to try to
> do first? Win forms, Web forms, WPF, WCF?
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On Tue, May 8, 2012, at 10:40 AM, AndyD wrote:
> For those moving from FoxPro there used to be a VFP library for C# -
> anyone know if it's still available and functioning?
http://foxcentral.net/microsoft/vfptoolkitnet.htm
Should still work fine although it hasn't been updated in 10 years.
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