I am laying out the scope of a learning project idea. In my day job I sell software that communicates with serial ports (RS-232c). So I want to learn more about how to use VB.NET for serial port communications. I came across Richard L. Grier’s website (HardandSoftware.net) and wanted to give him a thanks for a lot of good references on his site. His terminal application (see download page) is a good starting place for what I am looking to learn.
This has been a heck of a week. I went to the corporate office and had my computer rebuilt. It is horrible being without a computer for a couple days. On top of that I have a heavy class load for school, so I got behind. It is hard to learn to code and only have the book to look at. You need Visual Studio to actually learn from playing with code!
I was looking around the MSDN VB forums tonight and stumbled across a post that mentioned the site below. I am putting a post up to a) highlight a great idea and b) to help me remember myself.
http://www.carlosag.net/Tools/CodeTranslator/
Is a site that you can upload or paste some VB/C#code in and translate to C#/VB. What a great idea and thanks Carlos Aguilar Mares for creating this…
This should be helpful converting some C# code over to VB as I learn more.
Permanent link to this post (83 words, 1 image, estimated 20 secs reading time)
This is the best VB book for the beginner I have read, but has a really misunderstood name…. So here is my story and reasoning.
I have been trying to learn an Object Oriented Language for nearly the last two years. I have tried Java, C# and VB.NET all to no avail… The books have been cryptic and written for the aspiring programmer or assume you have some basic programming experience; though they claim the opposite.If you want to skip my whining just go to “A Long Story Short” below…
This is a preview of
Sam’s Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2008 in 24 Hours (Review)
.
Read the full post (1046 words, 2 images, estimated 4:11 mins reading time)
