Hi all,
I have been interested in programming on and off for about 25 years. I have messed around with LOGO, Pascal, GW Basic, Delphi, VB, VBA and a bit (very little) of C, Java and HTML. Never realing getting anywhere except maybe the VB(A) stuff. I can write a mean formula and macro in Excel.
I wish I could program something like Word or Excel, but I suppose that is just wishful thinking - many experienced programmers work together on something like that.
However, I really feel great being able to create and conquer challenges when programming, so want to try getting into it again.
To this end, any advice on where to start again? I seem to have missed the link in terms of the modern stuff like classes, OOP (in depth as I realise you do use it all the time) and the like. As you can see from my limited programming ability, it is all old school stuff. I have tried the VB.Net stuff and that just scares me compared to VB.
I would love to be able to write monitoring software for my DC rack, and link it to databases. I love the ideas of monitoring, storage (of the monitored stuff), analysis and trends.
Any comments would be highly appreciated.
I have been interested in programming on and off for about 25 years. I have messed around with LOGO, Pascal, GW Basic, Delphi, VB, VBA and a bit (very little) of C, Java and HTML. Never realing getting anywhere except maybe the VB(A) stuff. I can write a mean formula and macro in Excel.
I wish I could program something like Word or Excel, but I suppose that is just wishful thinking - many experienced programmers work together on something like that.
However, I really feel great being able to create and conquer challenges when programming, so want to try getting into it again.
To this end, any advice on where to start again? I seem to have missed the link in terms of the modern stuff like classes, OOP (in depth as I realise you do use it all the time) and the like. As you can see from my limited programming ability, it is all old school stuff. I have tried the VB.Net stuff and that just scares me compared to VB.
I would love to be able to write monitoring software for my DC rack, and link it to databases. I love the ideas of monitoring, storage (of the monitored stuff), analysis and trends.
Any comments would be highly appreciated.