i am also guilty of that.

Strange i find the opposite about microsoft, i always hated doing GUIs and i suck at it, so they give me nice MFC and lots of cool com tricks, i can add a webbrowser to an appw ith hardly any code and a right click, rapid development..

Then i can concentrate on the parts that really matter.

i hate programming for X though .

nothing quite like the zero line web browser ;)

You guys remember VirtuaGirl? Installed it, 'cos it was cool.
Than after 2 days removed it, because she was dancing in front of that line of code, which i wanted to see... :)

Anyway, I'm making living as a sw engineering for almost 7 years so far (mainly telecomms). It's a wonderful thing to create something new from nothing. To make huge systems work together. Developed sw in almost every known language on various operating systems. (my favourite is perl)
It always fills me with warm feelings to think about my bigges projects in the past... To look at them as my creations... As my "children"...

it is very cool.

One thing.
if you play with Php, or HTML before you mess with Visual Basic, or C++, ect.
you'll have a better understanding of it.

I mean, become truly elite in HTML, and PHP...you dont necessarily need to learn the mySQL integration with php, but its nicer to know.


BTW in case you didnt already know, php, and html are internet languages, used to build webpages.

Php, and mySQL integration are used to write the code for these forums....vBulliten.

If you hit view>source you wont view php, you'll view html, this is because when you write php, you are telling it to do certain things, which are then outputted into html...

i dunno...its hard to explain...you'll get it im sure...

Ah, cheers, you'll love it. Ruby rules!

I'm a Perl guy at heart, myself. It was the first language I learned and the only real language I consider myself completely 100% fluent in. Every other language I've ever learned (about 4 or 5 at this point) have been learned mainly in contrast to Perl. And every language I've learned has taught me something about Perl, too.... Learning a real OO language like Java, for instance, made it MUCH clearer what Perl was trying to do with its OO approach.

I'm just now starting learning Ruby, and... it rules.

programming is an art, not a money making business, look at it that way also, i program because i love the way letters make sense when put together and make something happen and what not.

Also, when you start programming and thinking of working for a business, realize that they want you to know the stuff that business needs not what you know with the pc.

Good luck on your endevours.