Thank you for all the responses. In my personal case, I am not a complete
novice to programming. I worked four years as a fulltime programmer (assembly
language and fortran primarily) in the defense industry, and I have taught
classes in Pascal and C at the college level a number of times. I have also
written
a lot of programs using the Maple (mathematics) language (which is similar to
Pascal or RB) and about 150 examples of my work are available on their
website, and given several presentations and workshops of this software at
mathematics conferences. And I think I have a decent intuitive feel for making
the
interface comfortable and usable and have devoted a lot of time to that.
However, I am a complete novice when it comes to interaction with the OS
(menus, file handling, email sending, etc) and external devices (printing) etc.
For example, I still have no clear definition of what a socket is, I just
learned that I have to put the self.close to make windows close, etc.
Actually I am very happy with this list, and there is almost always someone
to help with every little problem I encounter. So I am very appreciative, and
its not a bad way to learn as long as people are helpful and not bothered by
these questions. I have tried to answer other new people's questions at times -
despite my own novice level - in order to contribute also and try to bridge
the gap.
Greg
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