Computer Talk

Hi all, let's relax from military discussion. I've seen many of our members stated themself to be computer scientist or in computer related fields.

I don't know if this is allowed, if possible, let's start a new thread about software development. For me, I've been working as a system coordinator and software developer. I've been using VB for a few years, and is trying to move to C#. All applications I've done are database related.

So, please share your idea and experience in software development.

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Hello. My prefered language of programming is C. I find programming in Java extremely difficult. I have also made many programs in C++ also. My prefered field of study is algorithms. I avoid the study of databases.

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Indianfighter said:

Hello. My prefered language of programming is C. I find programming in Java extremely difficult. I have also made many programs in C++ also. My prefered field of study is algorithms. I avoid the study of databases.

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For what I've known about languages like C, C++ and Java are for making applications like components, drivers and also viruses. They aren't for window applications. Correct me if I'm wrong. So, what kinds of application have you made so far? My goal is to create database applications, like accounting, garments software and so on. Currently I create window based applications, and my next step will be web based one. So, languages like ASP.net combine with C# would be my favorite.

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SteelBird said:

For what I've known about languages like C, C++ and Java are for making applications like components, drivers and also viruses. They aren't for window applications. Correct me if I'm wrong.

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I do not know myself since I am still pursuing my studies and am not working like you are now.

So, what kinds of application have you made so far?

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I have made mostly small projects like one game and a small searh-tool besides
laboratory assignments as part of my curriculum.

My goal is to create database applications, like accounting, garments software and so on. Currently I create window based applications, and my next step will be web based one. So, languages like ASP.net combine with C# would be my favorite.

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My goal is to be in algorithm intensive areas.I also do not know avanced applications like win32 and databases. I think you are my opposite

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Indianfighter said:

My goal is to be in algorithm intensive areas.I also do not know avanced applications like win32 and databases. I think you are my opposite

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As I know C is good for algorithm, so you have your correct choice. Congratulation! I wonder how C++ will do in that field. Many people suggest me to take C++ (if I want), and never touch C. As Microsoft's C++ comes with an IDE which can help you in spelling and keywords. While in C, you do everything by yourself. The latest version of C++ is C++.net, any new version of C?

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I have been working in computer science for a long long time. I have done research and development in storage systems, Cluster systems, file systems, high performance computing, sensor netoworking, database and grid computing. My first proficient language and also my favoriate language is C. This language is extremely easy to make mistake however it is also extremely flexible and powerful.

I also used Java in some projects, but never like this language. One particular reason is that there are just so many terms and technologies in Java, such as Java Bean, Enterprise Java Bean, AJAX, J2EE, JBoss, Tomcat, ..., the list can go long long. Because Java is open, everyone seems to want to have his name and many software and technologies seems are not mature enough to be released.

In my recent work, I mostly work on Microsoft .NET platform using C# language and Web Services technologies, such as Microsoft WSE. C# is really nice language and resember very much like Java, however, because it is tightly controlled by one company so you won't see much chaos like Java community.

I think current software development trend is async, message based Web Service development, in which distributed software components communicated through HTTP protocol using stateful or stateless messages.

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I first started learning computer back in the early 1990s. There was no Internet and all these fancy stuff back then. My first PC was an Apple-II and I made some simple programmes using BASIC.

Then I began to learn DOS in 1992 and also used C launguage. There was no MS VC back then and we used something called Turbo C.

I always wanted to become a C++ programmer but never had the opportunity. Now I no longer work in the IT and the programming I do is to use a bit JavaScript, VB Script and ASP on my website. Quite low-tech really.

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Warm, warm, warm welcome to netspider. a chinese sentence said: "相见恨晚". i've been so lonely on my way to C#, i've not been able to share my experience or discuss with anybody about C#. excuse me, netspider, do u read chinese? if not i'll try to translate "feeling pity for why it took us so long to we meet each other". From now on, we can discuss more about C#.

Well DongFeng, you have better experience than I do. My first touch to computer was back to 1996, when I graduated from school. The first PC i use was a 486sx with a CPU of 33MHz or 66MHz in turbo mode (at that time 486dx was a better choice, which had a CPU of 90MHz ~ 120MHz). Windows 3.1 and DOS 6.22. My first programming language was qbasic, a very small file come along with DOS 6.22. Does anybody still remember that stuff? Later on I did some small programs with Turbo Pascal 7.0. But soon I found that functions in MS Excel (version 5 by that time) fitted all my needs, and left away all those programming language. I started learning VB 6.0 in around 2002, I had no teacher, really, I learnt everything on my own, with books and resources from Internet. Even now, when I start taking C#, all resource I have are books and Internet.

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I am a network administrator / cisco network engineer by profession with some linux. Started with computers back in 1997 as a computer technician.

I do not like programming and have no plans to learn any prog languages. I know some php and most of html as I had to teach my self during various website projects, like sinodefenceforum.

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well took some computing course as a elective back in 2004, learned python and visual c basic. Java is hard especially the prof ain't showing any working examples for a beginner's class. Though i am in economics field, i always wanted to be a computer technician.