>Hi Mark,
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>Geez, I never realized we had something besides FoxPro in common.
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>I'm a hybrid too. I started in Chemical Engineering, then went to Liberal Arts in the late '60s in Chicago. Back then, computers were as big as convenience stores and guarded by guys in white coats. I didn't get interested in them until a friend showed me some stuff on a TRS-80 in 1979. I was hooked. Seven years later, I went back to school and studied Computer Science at Kennesaw State here in Georgia. Without that, I don't think I'd have been anywhere near as successful at this as I've been.
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>Even so, after I got out of school, I went through a period where I got real stupid. Had an awful time developing systems. That stopped as soon as I realized that I wasn't applying what I had been taught at Kennesaw. As soon as I did, things got much easier.
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>I'll even go as far to say that, for me, the transition from FPW to VFP has been relatively easy. I haven't experienced the "steep learning curve" that has plagued many. I credit that to the understanding I gained at school.

I don't feel that I had that steep of a learning curve either. The curve was mainly all the new stuff introduced with VFP 3 then 5. Then comprehending the implications of all the new techniques or features. But I still feel I learn something new each day, if not by my own errors or research, then from UT.