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Originally Posted by ArchiMark
Thanks for your opinion, bdiscount!
Only reason I thought that the book might help is that it offers more than just a short illustration of something and gives you some background on the reasons or concepts behind why you do things a certain way. That's the one issue I have with just looking at examples, etc is that I don't often know why it's done this way versus that way or sometimes what I'm looking at....
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In Portugal we have a saying:
"IF you find someone who is hungry, don't give him a fish, teach him to fish"
I relate 100% to you, I alway try to understand why "its done that way", oposed to "it must be done that way"
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As for time it takes to learn, I hope that I can do it in less than 27 years as I'll be in the old folks home by then, if I make it that long, given my current age.....that's why I keep looking for relatively simple ways of accellerating my learning curve, besides the fact that since I work full-time (more than 40+ hours/week...) I don't have lots of free-time and unfortunately, don't have time right now to take a programming class or something like that.
My original thought that may have been very naive, was that by working with an onboard device IDE like basic4ppc offers, it would allow me to take advantage of the bits of free time that I do have periodically at lunch at work or between meetings, etc. Such that over some months I thought that this time would add up to something where I could make some progress....
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My background in coding has always been about BASIC, and I had stopped mess around with it for about 10 years, So when i pick it up with Basic4PPC, almost everything had "gone with the wind"...and I had to re-load all the keywords to my system again...
I was back codding in a week or so and had my first ever really complete app in about one month, so I would expect that those 27 Years you mentioned , really become abou one month or two for the basics, the rest, beeing basic4ppc an ever upgrading development tool, with all the new dll and such, will forever be a learning experience worth the while....
PS.: I would be up for the challange of writting a "hard-cover" book of basic4ppc, both in english as in my home language, but I figure I would need (lots of) help.....Anyone???