Climbing the .Net Mountain

Wrox VB.NET 3rd Edition

Arno Vyncke — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 21:08:00 GMT

I started reading in my Wrox VB.NET 3rd Edition book.
I must say I am very pleased with the book.
It teaches everything very well, and it is all well explained.
I am only 160 pages far right now, but already, I am learning about OOP, and I feel it is all very good explained.
Recommended!

Learning C# and ADO.NET

Arno Vyncke — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 23:48:00 GMT

About a week ago I went to the local library and got myself four books.

C# in 24 Hours
ADO.NET in 24 Hours
ASP.NET in 24 Hours
Java in 10 Minutes

I have focused on C#, but when I came to the database access part, I had trouble understanding it, because I am use to ADO, which differs quite a lot from ADO.NET in my opinion. So I got my ADO.NET book and started reading.
I think I kind of understand what it is all about (I must say it is a good book), but I haven't made any samples yet, and I do need the exercise.
Anyway, when I'm am done with reading through those books, I think I'll be learning ASP.NET, and use C# and ADO.NET in it. I want to redesign my website using it, and I am thinking about paying for some webhosting (as the free ones all have limitations...)
Anyway, I also got the Java one (very small book - hence the 10 minutes ;)), to ease my mind of all the .NET that is coming to me. I'll need it in the coming years, as that is what they teach in university, so I though I better get to know it already.

Learning way too much...

Arno Vyncke — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 22:57:00 GMT

Only one more week after this one, and I'm back in my exam period. Two weeks of constant learning, pressure and going to bed way too late for my brain to function properly.
Nevertheless I have decided to start learning both C# and XHTML :D
It seems C# has a future, and I cannot stay VB.Old forever, so it seems like a good choice.
Why C# and not VB.Net? Well, I'm planning to learn both, but actually, I wanted to learn VB.Net first.
In the library all VB.Net books were gone, so I took the C# one and I've been reading in it a few pages each time I go to bed.
And today I was returning my other books I picked too (I always take way too much books with me after a visit) because they were too late. And I saw two books, on XML, the other XHTML, lying around.
So I decided to take them with me, you never know ;)

Anyone knows if it is really useful to learn XHTML? Wouldn't want to waste my time...

Doesn't seem that hard ...

Arno Vyncke — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:55:00 GMT

After reading through a few basic chapters, I found myself believing C# isn't that hard at all.
Now all I need is an idea to create a project and start working on it ;-)

But of course I'm just seeing the fundamentals, which are almost the same for every language. I fear for the OOP part though ... The data types all seem pretty similar to what I know, only structures seem strange animals. In my book they say structures are like classes but differ in one thing, which I can now no longer remember :P

Gosh, school is erasing everything I learned about C#...

Starting a little C# Journey

Arno Vyncke — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:26:00 GMT

After going to the local library to get me some .NET Books to finally get started, I came home carrying a "Basiscursus C#" (yes, that's Dutch :p), An "ADO.Net in 24 Hours" and "The PC-Hardware Book".
I had no luck as all Visual Basic .NET Books had already left the building.
I've read a few pages in the C# book and it looks interesting.
I'm wondering wether I should wait and go for VB.Net or I should go for C#...

I'll see - I'll be reading some C# in the next couple of days.

The Start of My Blogging

Arno Vyncke — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:40:00 GMT

I'm still not quite sure why, but I decided to ask Serge the possibility to blog...
I don't have a lot to tell you guys - but I'm sure that will come soon.

Up to now I haven't got the chance to learn VB.Net, but I had the intention already a long time ago.
Learning from a book just isn't that easy as it sounds if you can't try it out :p

The problem is my Pentium II 350 Mhz with 64 Mb RAM and only 6GB HD just isn't quite good enough to run Windows XP and Visual Basic .Net without any problems.
I'll be upgrading my computer in a few months - I can't wait to start the .Net journey!

Oh well - I'll be turning to the dark side as soon as I can - and until then I'll just see what happens.
Have a good day all.