Chapter 3 wrap up

Both the projects were a bit more fun, the Temperature Converter might be more useful than the Stadium seating one. Eventually I would like to try port the Temperature Converter to my Android phone, just so I can easily have a conversion program that I could debug should it need to be. Out of the two programs, the Temperature Converter did give a bit more problems as I made the assumption that C# was as flexible as a graphing calculator and needed parenthesis to separate the (9/5) and (5/9). This ended in a logic error displaying 32 as the answer. I think saving the easiest button for last to program does make things easier. Now, I look forward to typing this.Close(); as it means my program is done.

Chapter 3

This was an interesting chapter for me. It started to delve into things that I really enjoy about programming, a way to make code easier. Such ways as using a groupbox so you don't have to edit the tab order, using the & to make it so Alt + (Next Letter) = access key for the button, and Forms vs. Local Variables. The math class section was pretty interesting, wish I had taken this class before any of my math classes. I look forward to attempting the assignments tomorrow.

Chapter 2 Wrap up and Quiz

Finished the assignments and turned them in. There has got to be an easier way to turn all the label names from visible from invisible than listing each one in the book. There was one question on the quiz that is still wrong from chapter 1 but overall the optional quiz questions seemed to be more correct than they were before. So far I have been enjoying using studio to write code especially the command auto fill in that is sort of like the auto fill in that I use for web browsing. The list that gets brought up makes it easier than having to refer to my memory or the book for the correct code for the program. If Perl had the same type of features I might have enjoyed the assignments a bit more.

Chapter 2

After reading the 2nd chapter, it seems as though this book wants us to become more familiar with the gui environment that Visual Studios has. The hello world first coding task was similar to how other programming languages start. It was kinda odd that it showed how to do a multiple event before the Hello World application.  This will be the first programming language that isn't pretty much written in notepad so it will be a small change. I look forward to attempting the assignments tomorrow.

Chapter 1 First Impressions

The first chapter in the Visual C# book rehashed some of the concepts that I had learned in other computer classes. Such concepts as algorithms, hardware, software, binary, and others. I have taken mostly networking classes but those concepts seem to stay no matter what class it is. Seeing binary in ASCII was a lot more refreshing than having to subnet a network without a binary calculator. Overall I think this chapter did a good review of basic concepts that will be used a lot more in programming.

First Post

My name is Wayne Stark. Currently I am a student enrolled in the Networking Technologies Linux track and have enjoyed taking many different computer classes from Linux system administration courses to video game design. My programming experiences are mostly from the classroom setting having taken the CIS 130 Programming Logic and Design, CIS 183 Video Game Design if that counts as programming, and CIS 248 Perl Scripting. I am taking this course out of curiosity since I am intrigued by all things computer related. Also I do like how programming can make life easier; instead of having to alter large amounts of data, a script can be written to sift through and change certain data.

I hope to gain the knowledge of an object oriented language down and possibly learn java later in the future. Top 3 things on my bucket list. The top item is to travel the world to sample all sorts of culinary cuisines. Next would be to go sky diving, I have done cliff jumping so heights isn't too much of a worry but I do like the idea of falling from thousands of feet from the sky. Lastly would be to learn the guitar, I always loved Rock music because of the guitar rifts but have never learned how to properly play the guitar.