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Windows 11 looks to be a decent upgrade, but not one to lose sleep over missing. You mean it's almost like an early Alpha build?
Or like regular Windows?
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Quote: The Windows 11 insider build is surprisingly unpolished and unfinished
Surprisingly? 
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In addition to Windows 11, Microsoft has been secretly working on a new Windows PC experience called 'Cloud PC' that allows business customers to run virtualized desktops in the cloud. It will either reign or rain
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The basic idea here is to start with real code that you wrote and then remove irrelevant details to make it into a self-contained example instead of coming up with examples out of thin air. You mean "Hello world" isn't real code?
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Don't people sign NDAs nowadays?
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They do, which is why many developers write personal projects as well, that they can show to prospective clients / employers.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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One of the reasons I never did well in school was that the math and physics examples were so contrived. Then again, a real world example would have required so much more math and physics that it would have been impossible. So I think, even in programming, contrived examples have their place -- the idea is to keep the context simple and accessible as well. A very important part of the teaching process then becomes how to shift from a simple context to a more complex (real world) context. If only I'd understood that when I was going to school.
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School is there to teach you the basics. They have advanced courses for kids that want to continue down the path. At least, they did it that way when I was a kid.
I have a friend that wants to learn how to write code (no, he's not an ex-coal miner). He just got his masters in engineering, but admits he's weak in writing code, and his entire experience with regards to code is in C++.
I told him to get VS Community Edition, pick one of the many languages it supports and start writing code. I know - I'm not much of a teacher.
I pointed him at code project, but that's all I really know to do.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Another idea might be to pick a not-too-hard project (for example a notepad, then move on to a calculator, or to solitaire), and write it from scratch. A successful project would give experience in design, graphic layout, etc. The advantage of learning from such a project is that there are endless examples of working programs that may be used for guidance.
There is little advantage today to starting from the batch-processing (or console I/O) programming that we started with 40+ years ago.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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He knows nothing about Visual Studio. That alone makes starting even the simplest project a noteworthy task.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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This resonates because it's what I've done in most articles. I'd find it hard to "come up with examples out of thin air" that weren't hackneyed or for newbies. If I'm going to discuss something interesting, it has to come from real code that has been edited to distill its essence.
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But nothing is more relevant than a foo and a bar. Oops - excuse me - I meant fubar.
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Helping Microsoft with Windows 11 can earn you some unique achievements and badges. If you're really good, do you get a sucker?
Although I think the sucker is somewhere else in this equation.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Although I think the sucker is somewhere else in this equation.
As in:
var aSuckerIsBorn = 1minute; ?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: some unique achievements and badges.
The best badge ist the badger ![Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/badger.gif)
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Not the badgest? 
TTFN - Kent
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Badgest? we don't need no stinkin Badgest!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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It's mind-blowing that people would devote time to finding bugs in return for "achievements" and "badges". I hoot in derision in their general direction.
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I suspect it might be more for people that stumble across bugs, then bother to report them.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Win11 - the ultimate troll! "Works as designed! No moolah for you!"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Helping Microsoft with Windows 11 can earn you some unique achievements and badges.
If you get one do you have an iconic status as they like icons (especially well rounded ones)
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Visual Studio Code program manager Chris Dias has defended an intrusive new "Workspace Trust" dialog, saying it is to "raise awareness that there are many attack opportunities when you download code from the internet." Are you really, really, really sure you want to edit that code you just opened?
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I think the stark reality is that *somebody* needs to warn people about code they download from the internet.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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The average engineer spends 6 hours per week — roughly one day — dealing with technical debt, according to the State of Technical Debt 2021 report from Stepsize, a developer of software development tools. You're saying I should take that day off?
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Better 1 in technical debt than 3 in useless meetings.
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