The topic was, VB - Best tool to demolish one's programming skills - while I started programming wth java having no background at all about programming, it was so difficult to pick up and understand the stuff, reason being, even to print a '.' on screen, you have to work out for a long time to get it right. I would do a lengthy paper work, sometimes just trial and error approach to get it the way i wanted. Not only myself, anyone spending long spans on a particular subject gets the skills polished, same happened to me. I was used to think for long periods specifically about the problems. Kevin Hely, one of the best teachers I ever had, was used to say - think hard about the problem specifically, you guys (future programmers) are going to be the professional thinkers - , and somehow I managed to think specifically, which I never was able to.
But now, I am programming in VB, lolz, you need a button, drag it from the toolbar and drop it to the form. you need a text box, no bothers, drag nd drop a textbox from the toolbar to the form, similary, you have everything you can think of that would you need to design an application. Now I wonder, where is the thinking part that is the spirit - or have been the spirit - of programming. After 5 weeks of taking my hand off from java, when i tried to help one of the juniors about making a function, I got stuck, and took the problem home and spent thrice more time that I usually take to solve some problem of that genre. Later on, I realised, it was VB that is wrecking whatever Skills I have for programming. and that is actually the driven force to write that article.
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