Tony Septav
iggy at nanaimo.ark.com
Tue Jan 11 12:28:26 CST 2011
Hey All Happy New Year. Well after reading your online intriquing and interesting chats and advice I have decided 1. To finally get my Web Page (I designed it over 2 years ago) up and running. It is nothing fancy but how can I be a credible programmer when I can't direct a client to my Web Page. 2. Start learning VB.Net. I know some of you favour VB.C+ but I am an old dog and I didn't want to tackle any thing too foreign. I hope to have my first application out of here by the end of January. Just kidding. Let me tell you I have been struggling with VB.Net. I am pretty proficient in getting Access to do what I want. Now I have to learn a whole new bag of tricks. It didn't help that some of the first tutorials I looked at kept trying to show me how to display "Hello World" on the console. I finally found one that showed me how to link to an Acess MDB and design a form with navigation, add new and delete buttons. So now I am off and running. I still get frustrated because I know what I want to do but at this point I don't know how to do it in VB.Net. But I keep remembering something I read years ago. It went something like this. Ted and Paul are having a conversation. Paul says "I would really like to learn how to play the piano, but I hear it takes about 5 years to really learn how to play it well, I just don't think I have the time". Ted thinks about it for a moment and then realizes that Paul had said the same thing to him 5 years ago. So hopefully I can persevere and catch up to you guys. I just hope it doesn't take me 5 years.