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Need some VB practice? Check out the VB Design team
John Smiley
02.15.2001
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Need some VB practice? Check out the VB Design team
One of the questions I get quite often from my students and readers, is
this one: When I've completed this course, or your book, how can I keep
my Visual Basic skills sharp?
That's a good question and over the years I've had several suggestions.
How about writing a Visual Basic program based on one of your hobbies?
Or finding a charitable organization that could use a Visual Basic
program written to help them out? Or even entering a Visual Basic
contest (such as the one being run now by VBExplorer.com) or a
programming fair like the one I am currently sponsoring?
http://www.johnsmiley.com/vbfair.htm
Recently, one of my readers alerted me to another alternative that you
may want to check out called the VB Design team.
http://www.vbdesignteam.com
Here's the idea: A group of people interested in Visual Basic
development get together (well, as much as you can get together via the
Internet) and work on Visual Basic projects as a team. Sounds like a
great idea doesn't it? The concept reminds me of something which I
tried to get off the ground a few years ago myself, and which for a
number of reasons (time, distance, the limitations of the Internet)
never fulfilled its promise. This site seems much better organized.
How do you join? There's a link off the main page to register. You'll
first need to subscribe to the VB Design team group at egroups.com, and
then register with the VB Design team. According to the Web Site's
latest statistics, there are 548 members in 61 countries registered.
The site has links to a Projects message board that shows that there
are five projects currently in development by team members, and
suggestions for six others (any team member can suggest a project). In
addition to Projects, the site has hot links to its egroups board, a
chat facility, and Visual Basic links.
In glancing through the message board, I suspect that the same problems
that plagued my group may impact this one. But regardless, the site is
a good place to start if you'd like to work on a project with a group
of Visual Basic devotees.
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Written by John Smiley, MCP, MCSD and MCT, author, and adjunct
professor of Computer Science at Penn State University in Abington,
Philadelphia University, and Holy Family College. John has been
teaching computer programming for nearly 20 years.
John Smiley is president of Smiley and Associates,
http://www.johnsmiley.com/smass/smass.htm a computer consulting firm
located in New Jersey.
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