[ale] Hello World - in C# - in Mono - in Ubuntu is done

[Justin Simms]

well,

i am glad that you are deciding to teach yourself in any language that
is useful. I am
a full supporter of open source , but I will not act like everything
that is proprietary is wrong.
There are some good tools that are on MS operating systems, but there
are also a lot of bad ones.
I believe that the power of open source comes from knowing what it
does , if you choose, and being able
to modify any application or framework that you want, if you choose.
It is all ultimately about choice. There is
nothing "short-sighted" about learning, so take comfort in knowing
that at least one other person applauds your
efforts. I have worked in C# , but it has been a while. That being
said, I am all for helping you in any way that I can.
The .net framework has some powerful assemblies (packages, modules,
whatever you want to call a collection of similar behaviors).
I have not used mono before , but I would be willing to fire it up and
learn with you, so that you will not be learning alone.
BTW, I say this from my Arch Linux machine using XMonad as my desktop
manager, so please, keep all of the hate to yourselves. We should
never tear each other down , especially when things are done for the
betterment of anyone in the group. Peace.


Justin

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:51 PM, arxaaron <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I can't think of anything more short sighted than learning to program in
> a totally proprietary language, especially given that there are so many
> fully capable and liberated open source languages available whose
> designers don't try to handcuff you to proprietary API's and put
> daunting
> roadblocks in the way of cross platform compiling.
>
> In some assembly code languages, "#" is the NOT symbol, so even the
> name of the C# language is telling you NOT to use it!  :-)
>
> peace
> aaron
>
> On 2010/09/16, at 12:32 , Chris Fowler wrote:
>
>> You are making a great start.  Sending HTML email is the first step to
>> being a successful MS programmer :)
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 11:14 -0400, Ron Frazier wrote:
>>> I have just completed my first Hello World program in C# in Mono in
>>> Ubuntu.  I even customized it for this group, as indicated by the
>>> image below.
>>>
>>>               hello world.png
>>>
>>> By this evening, I should have a 1 million object astronomical entity
>>> tracking system which can accept 2 million hits / second on a
>>> website.
>>> OK, I made that up, maybe I won't finish that today.  8-)
>>>
>>> Seriously, my goal is to be employable as a C# programmer within 6 mo
>>> to 1 year spending a few hours per day.  I spent several years
>>> programming Clipper for Delta Air Lines, so I've been through this
>>> before.  What I haven't done before is the object oriented stuff and
>>> the GUI stuff and the multi-threaded stuff and the web site stuff.
>>> So, I know there's a big learning curve.  I'd appreciate any help
>>> anyone familiar with C# is willing to give.
>>>
>>> I know C# is usually a Microsoft thing, but I understand that quite a
>>> bit of Linux development is using it too, and that it makes a good
>>> cross platform language.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Ron
>>> --------------------------
>>> (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might
>>> want to
>>> call on the phone.  I get about 300 emails per day from alternate
>>> energy
>>> mailing lists and such.  I don't always see new messages very
>>> quickly.)
>>>
>>> Ron Frazier
>>>
>>> 770-205-9422 (O)   Leave a message.
>>> linuxdude AT c3energy.com
>
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