<a href="http://charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualStudioRotTheMind.html" target="_blank">http://charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualSt...RotTheMind.html</a><br /><br />Discuss<br /><br /><br />Warning latenight incoherant rant:<br />I feel the the ability for any newbie programmer to pick up VS be it C, VB, or .NET and spit out a GUI app in mere hours is really really bad. There are A LOT of programmers out there who dont know how to solve problems, yet they can make popup dialogs and other GUI magic. I've been here for a while and have been around the froshies at school, constantly its get a problem write code as fast as you can in the right direction. Everyone is being taught more about syntax and proper language rules than problem solving, which is what computers and programming are all about. <br /><br />When I have a problem, a program to write. I think about how to generally solve the problem. Then break that down into managable parts, then convert each part into the language Im writing it in. Everyone I see does it the other way around.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/lang/python/examples/litsource/index.html#intro" target="_blank">Take a look at this</a>. <a href="http://infohost.nmt.edu/~astavely/cseet-paper.html" target="_blank">And this</a> <br />We need to focus toward this, software dev is a giant mess, horrible in every manner. The IDE makes things much worse. However, if you know how to program, not just code but develop methods for the solution of problems, then the IDE's and such are fine. But people are starting off with tthem and its leading to extreamly buggy, insecure, bad bad code. <br /><br /><br />People, get your problem solving concepts down. Solve the problem, then code it. Please for my sanity
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