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OriginalGriff10-Dec-14 3:47
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BiggerDon wrote:
I am most interested in how you've gone about being self-educated in different languages and technologies.

Get a book, or a course: if you try and "pick it up as you go along" you miss far, far too much stuff. Books and courses both introduce the material in a structured way and (hopefully) cover all the material. And do the exercises! "Doing" something forces it into your brain better than "reading" something - so "looking at the answers" is not as effective a learning tool as sitting there and mucking the whole thing up! Laugh | :laugh:

And modern frameworks are seriously complicated - there are so many ways to do the same thing that it is too easy to use something "that works" even though it's "only just" when there is a better method that does it "properly". For example, you can use an ArrayList in VB / C# and it'll do the job - but a generic List<T> does the same thing much, much better!
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