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“Major” being hyperbole, of course! Still, I have purchased the ebook version of Learning C# after seeing a post about a one-day sale O’Reilly was having where you could get any ebook for $9.99. Books on programming are always tricky to use because you have to constantly refer to them while trying to, well, program, [...]
I set about working on the first actual lesson in C# on the msdn site, which, typically, is the near-mandatory “hello world!” program. The lesson has the code in a little code box (to preserve formatting) and instructs you to paste it into the C# program window and run it. Except the example code leaves [...]
Before letting Mavis Beacon beat me about the head some more for my lack of touch-typing skills, I thought it might be fun to try my hand at programming again. Over the years I have dabbled a bit in some Basic, coded HTML, made a few stylesheets and wrangled with an SQL file or two, [...]