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Old 09-25-2007, 07:47 PM
ArchiMark ArchiMark is offline
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Originally Posted by Cableguy View Post
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"
Umm... thought it went like this:

"Give a man a fish, you'll feed him for a day.

Teach a man to fish and he'll spend all his time in a boat drinking beer!"

or was it:

"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life."







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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???
Thanks for explaining, Paulo....

As for the book, I'd be willing to help out. Obviously, not as the code guru, but could try out what you come up with and give you feedback as to what is clear and comprehensible to a noob like and what is not, etc....Once it got going and I get a bit further along (assuming that I do... ), then I might be able to make some suggestions as to what topics would be useful to have included....

Mark
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