Great programmers don't just happen !
“We need more coders”, “Everybody needs to learn to code”, “Coding should be a basic requirement in education”, …. Have you heard or read comments similar to these ? What does this have to do with classic Visual Basic ? BASIC and the hobby programmer Why won’t BASIC just die and go away ? Probably most programmers today think this,
Read moreI saw an interesting reference on the web calling the WIN32 API, the Assembler language of Windows. While not quite true technically (since a true assembler is even lower level than something like the Windows API), it is a valid description of the WIN32 compared to other GUI frameworks, such as dot.net. The benefit of assembler Back in the day when
Read moreIn this tutorial I will teach a few lessons about coding using the PowerBasic compiler by using a sample application I wrote which demonstrates a common error when writing desktop applications. This allows me to teach multiple lessons here. Often when we have an app which takes a long time to finish a task (ie. reading a data file, processing
Read more