ThePentiumGuy
Senior Contributor
Hey all,
I think it's about time that I start looking at other aspects of .NET besides graphical. It's been about a year since I've even touched things like ASP.NET and ADO.NET. Of course, I won't stop game programming. But if I choose to become a professional developer, I really should have more experience in other areas as well, but that's a different story.
I've found that over time, I've basically lost the language. I'm really not doing things the proper way in Visual Basic.NET; see my tutorials in the Tutor's Corner. I'm not taking advantage of the features which VB.NET offers. I think it's time for a change. Thanks to DaRock for influencing me.
Some pointers from the aformentioned person:
"[You need to learn] Polymorphism, Inheritance, Stack and Heap management, Event driven programming, and Services."
However I usually find that I learn better while applying things. Now I realize that I could learn this by programming a game, but my main goal here is virtu - excellence in all that I do. Just like the Renaissance times - see Da Vinci. The man was not only an artist... but an architect, engineer, painter, inventor. He even scetched things that are used today (for example the primative form of a helicopter - he imagined the blades on the top and formed somewhat of a similar structure to the current heilicopter). Now the extreme side of this is that he would learn to write backwards (mirror script) and used dead bodies to study the vein locations, contours... see David.
My question to you is, what should I pursue next? I used to easily dismiss the thought of databases (I used to say "boring, the end") and I found ASP.NET useless. Now things have changed a little.
What other areas of VB.NET do you recommend me to explore? It's about time I took the bull by the horns and.... (uhh).... eat it(?).
-The Pentium Guy
I think it's about time that I start looking at other aspects of .NET besides graphical. It's been about a year since I've even touched things like ASP.NET and ADO.NET. Of course, I won't stop game programming. But if I choose to become a professional developer, I really should have more experience in other areas as well, but that's a different story.
I've found that over time, I've basically lost the language. I'm really not doing things the proper way in Visual Basic.NET; see my tutorials in the Tutor's Corner. I'm not taking advantage of the features which VB.NET offers. I think it's time for a change. Thanks to DaRock for influencing me.
Some pointers from the aformentioned person:
"[You need to learn] Polymorphism, Inheritance, Stack and Heap management, Event driven programming, and Services."
However I usually find that I learn better while applying things. Now I realize that I could learn this by programming a game, but my main goal here is virtu - excellence in all that I do. Just like the Renaissance times - see Da Vinci. The man was not only an artist... but an architect, engineer, painter, inventor. He even scetched things that are used today (for example the primative form of a helicopter - he imagined the blades on the top and formed somewhat of a similar structure to the current heilicopter). Now the extreme side of this is that he would learn to write backwards (mirror script) and used dead bodies to study the vein locations, contours... see David.
My question to you is, what should I pursue next? I used to easily dismiss the thought of databases (I used to say "boring, the end") and I found ASP.NET useless. Now things have changed a little.
What other areas of VB.NET do you recommend me to explore? It's about time I took the bull by the horns and.... (uhh).... eat it(?).
-The Pentium Guy