[AccessD] OT:Old Dog, New Tricks

 > 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.

When you are done with yours, how about fixing up mine?  ;)

 > 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.

As I said many times, pick a .net language, *any* language, and get started.  VB.Net is a fine 
language, you will love it after not too long.

I would suggest that you take a course at your local college.  This gives you immediate projects to 
complete, homework that has to be done, other students to learn with etc.

 > 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.

It is a bit frustrating at first, partly because it is tough to do the database stuff until you get 
comfortable with the environment itself.  We all want to start at virtuoso and that definitely ain't 
happening with .Net.

If you haven't already, join the vb list.  A lot of the .Net only stuff goes by on that list.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 1/11/2011 1:28 PM, Tony Septav wrote:
> 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.