>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.
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>I know it's difficult to study by yourself sometimes. But it pay's for itself multiple times over.
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>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.
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It all depends on how you put the statement. In the case of Paul it didn't sound insulting, in your case - it clearly did. I'm reading books, links, etc. in the meantime. I guess I did waste a lot of time helping here in VFP forum instead of concentrating on learning when I did have time. Now I'm trying to learn and work at the same time and it's not an easy process.

BTW, to achieve my current VFP level (where most of things I can do quite easily) I also started by asking lots of beginner questions here. That's one of my ways of learning.

The problem with .NET that it's huge and takes longer learning curve.