And the worse part is taking that statement personally, as Naomi has. We are supposed to all be professionals here. And probably at some point in our careers have had to modify code written by a "self-taught" developer.

I know it's difficult to study by yourself sometimes. But it pay's for itself multiple times over.

At a minimum you can see what the author considers the important language principles. And hopefully from your experience you can see where these principles can be applied.



>I don't know how anyone could properly learn by just asking questions on a forum. This will leave room for potentially missing some very important constructs.
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>I couldn't agree with you more. This is true regardless of what the language is.
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>Even though I wrote a couple of small ASP.NET apps using C#, the code was crap and when things didn't work, all I did was find a bigger hammer < s >. That is why I decided to take a .NET class at the local university. I have had a lot of inquiries about my availability for .NET work and I wanted to have a conceptual peg to hang things on.