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Hi Folks ,
I love this site and love getting e-mail from this site with new stuff happening . I am a total newbie at programing but I have been in System Administration for a while . I would love to see a Section dedicated to total newbies that off projects and information for the beginner ... Not that anything should be in stone cause its hard to keep peoples intrests but I think I have a passion for programming even though I'm a total newbie at it .. It would be nice to see a section for newbies ... Or maybe there is and I haven't seen it ... Sorry for such a long e-mial ... Great Site !!
Thanks
Chris
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People have talked about this before, and agreed that it's a good idea. There's a beginners section for C++, one for C#, etc, but as you said, there aren't really very many articles for the total beginner. I just might write some myself - if time permits.
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It's been suggested before, and remains a good idea. I'm an old fart, used to programming procedural style, but I'm a total newbie in this goofy, confusing Windows event-driven paradigm. I search for beginner articles regularly, and there are a lot of them if you look for them. Every article is rated by level, but it can be difficult to find the beginner level ones easily. A separate section for us would be nice. So long as we can stay away from utterly useless garbage like 'Hello World' and 'Scribble' apps, anything tutorial on a beginner level would be welcome.
If you're really new to programming, I'd recommend that you check out some of the scripting articles realted to ASP and ADO. Scripting is looked down upon by a lot of the locals, but it's every bit as valid as a programming model as C++ - it just takes advantage of higher levels of abstraction so as to save you the worry over the low-level details of your code. C# looks to be the new darling in Microsoft's nest, and there are a lot of good articles of a tutorial nature there. That's a good step up after dabbling with scripts, and the nomenclature and syntax are a good intro to what you'll need to move on into the high-octane languages.
One thing you might consider is, though there is no beginner area here, the possibility of adding your discoveries as you learn in the form of basic tutorials. That would grow the stock of beginner articles here, perhaps resulting in a need to create the very thing you seek. You would be doing yourself, and others, a service by making this happen. Keep in mind that, even if all you know how to do is loop on a serial port waiting for something to happen, there are likely to be many of our nearly 700,000 members who don't know how to do that. They may be very thankful to you for you showing them how it's done. I have a strong feeling that many good articles may never be published because the authors feel that their contribution isn't good enough for this bunch; don't let that stop you...
Welcome to CodeProject, weird world though it may be.
"Your village called - They're missing their idiot."
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Yup, I agree entirely, I have a friend that want's to learn how to program in .net and there is really nothing on the internet anywhere that will walk a person with nothing more than an internet connection through the process of getting the runtime installed, getting the open source IDE, starting with the basics, i.e. what is an object, what is a program through to writing the classic hello world app and on from there.
Ideally it would be nice if a beginner section stated up front that all you need is an internet connection, a windows pc and a willingness to learn and the rest is linked to, taught from the beginners section. Step by step to bring a person up to where they can then benefit from / use the beginner level articles already on C.P.
I support two teams: the Canucks and whoever is playing the Leafs!
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I hoop that you will add a java section to this web site
i think that it will be good step where we can add many articels and compare the power of C# against java
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Havent u noticeed that CP is more twards MicroSoft technologies?!?!
I was born intelligent Education ruined me!.
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But we can extend our knowledge by discussing other company products , and you know that i am speaking about big development tool JAVA it is stable one and have many services take a look on it
Mhmoud Rawas
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Software Eng.
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mhmoud rawas wrote:
it is stable one
may be!
I was born intelligent Education ruined me!.
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What about J#? Would that be good enough? This is a Microsoft developers website by in large.
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa
Brian Welsch wrote:
"blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans.
Crikey! ain't life grand?
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No it is not java it dont't deppend on java vertual machin so it is something like other new programming language
Mhmoud Rawas
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Software Eng.
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Hi,
I don't know if I am cross-posting, but wanted to put this suggestion to the site-authors (Chris, et al). From the Media Kit[^] section, i.e. Once we click on the Advertise[^] link on the homepage, there is no link provided to come back to the homepage.
If this is intentionally done, well, no issues. But just in case this slipped the initial design, I'd like to suggest to add a link for the same.
Rgds,
Nirav Doshi
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Thanks Michael!
I was wondering about an explicit link to get back to the homepage. Anyway Bob serves the purpose too!
Thanks anyway!
Rgds,
Nirav
* Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better! *
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Hello,
I'd like to suggest that the title of the page reflect what is on a particular page. When I'm reading an article I tend to follow links through and then I want to get back to the article. If all the links are on CodeProject I get all the pages in the Back button's history dropdown marked as "The Code Project - Free Source Code and Tutorials", what about changing it to say: "Code Project - The Lounge" or "Code Project: Name of a Really Interesting Article" or "Code Project - Member Profile" etc. Then when I want to go back to the page I want I can easilly find it in the list.
Anyway, that's my tuppeny worth.
Thanks,
Colin.
--Colin Mackay--
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but perseverance." (H. Jackson Brown)
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Some weeks ago I publish this article "C++ Setup Bootstrapper for .NET" (http://www.codeproject.com/tools/dotNetInstaller.asp) at codeproject.
For you what is the right section for this kind of article?
For now I use "All Topics, MFC / C++ >> Free Tools >> Tools with source code".
This tool is written in C++ but is very useful for .NET users and this section is not visible by .NET users.
One idea is to have two attributes, one for the programming language of the article and the other for the target platform (.NET, MFC, Windows, Linux, ...)
Thanks for the great web site ...
Davide
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It would be nice if you put a link to the VC++ FAQ in the VC++ forum. Or if this requires a lot of changes to acomplish at least a link beside the forum´s name in the forums list.
Gabriel
Old C programmers never die. They just cast into void
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I'm sure it's been suggested before? Is there a reason The Code Project doesn't cover PHP stuff?
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Wow, Whats really sad is until you just mentioned it I had never noticed it.....
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Kluch wrote:
I'm sure it's been suggested before?
yes.
Kluch wrote:
Is there a reason The Code Project doesn't cover PHP stuff?
There are a few PHP articles here - post some more
A servant to formulaic ways.
Shog9
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a bookmark, a cup of tea, a reboot, a reconnect to CP and
no more article ?
or is it just me ?
thanks
Antoine
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Because it's _so difficult_ to juggle the requests of 600,000 people, 98% of whom use IE, when one is trying to take their first vacation in a year :P
The entire browser identification code was reworked using a third party list of browsers. Your browser has been modified and provides a user-agent string that is non standard is hence is being marked as "unknown" because it can't be found on our list. That list is generated dynamically each week and so, if I'm to make it work with your mod then each week I have to manually add your browser to that list.
There is a better way to do this but at the moment I need to deal with the other 1,000 tiny things that are really easy to fix as well.
And then I'm gonna try and get over jetlag
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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