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[zeitghost]

Byeeee

[NickFitz]

Day 15 I think. And I'm sure it's been more than 4 weeks... I started some time in June.

I stopped doing the book thing because it's so utterly tedious.

One can do the exercises, but until you have something to hack around, it's all pretty pointless, and I find none of it really sticks.

Thus the weather fax thingie.

Day 14 was the file handling day, I think.

I now have a reasonable grasp of what it does & how it does it, but it really does take more than one book to get some of it going... viz that auto thingie this afternoon.

Yup, I've never found the exercises in books very rewarding - I tend to hack about at something interesting and fall back on the book as reference material. Otherwise I finish up knowing how to write the example application (for which I have no use), and still having to work out how to apply what I've learned in more interesting areas

IIRC MS BASIC file handling has been fundamentally weird since the Seventies, and hasn't improved since, hence the tendency to use ADODB.Stream and its ilk for anything beyond the fifteen-entry flat file address book "database" that seems to have been the intended application.

[NickFitz]

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[Diver]

Morning BP

Morning all

Wifey is dragging me off to Asda in a mo

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Morning BP

Morning all

Wifey is dragging me off to Asda in a mo

hmmm - you think you have it bad - I am being dragged to Lakeside for open wallet surgery!

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quiet today!

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[zeitghost]

Afternoon all...

'Ot, innit?