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Thirsting for an App
Ok. I’m learning C# but I am too bored with the examples in the book and am ready for something new, more advanced and phat. I’m fine learning and doing sample apps but I want to use C# in production.
A couple weeks ago, just for the heck of it, I looked into C# and database interaction. It was a bit daunting with all of the new ways to do things. I come from a ColdFusion/PHP background (in terms of db interaction) so I’m used to using datasources and simple functions (php) not connection strings. That was my first hang up but I eventually got it after finding the right help info. From there…what do I build? I just made it so you could run a select query against a database and it would output the results. So, how cheesy is that? It is utterly useless and even made Cody B. (your resident C# guru) ask questions about what it does.
In light of this I think you can see why I’m thirsting for a sweet app to build in C#. I have things I’m going to build with Flash/Flex + Zinc but I want to get C# down pat and start knocking out some web services, desktop apps, etc. .NET is pretty sweet…only if I could harness that sweetness into an app. :-)
This is typical though. I always struggle when I learn languages because I want so bad to build something sweet. I guess it is my impatient nature to do great (sweet) dev work. If I don’t do something sweet for a long time I get antsy and impatient. Either way…I’m going to conjure something up and knock it out. If you have any ideas for good C# apps to build for fun hit me up.
Posted by John C. Bland II on February 6, 2006 10:53 PM | Permalink
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