programmers

Who could have predicted that the 80's game of Pong would spawn a multi-billion dollar gaming industry complete with PCs, PDAs, and wireless phones that are specifically designed to handle the speed and graphics that today's games demand?

Are you a genius? Are you itching to show your programming skills to somebody that matters? Google's annual Code Jam gives top programmers a shot at $10,000 plus a job.

In an article for the July 2001 MSDN Magazine I talked about what you need to know to move from C++ to C#. In that article, I mentioned that the syntax of C# is very similar to that of C++ and that the difficult part of the transition was not the language itself but getting comfortable with the managed environment of .NET and understanding the extensive .NET Framework.

So what is a class? A class is a plan or a blueprint for an object, like a blueprint for a house. What if you want your house to look like a neighbor’s house? Well, you change the blueprint and add another fireplace.