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I’ve got a confession to make<\/p>\n

I’ve always looked “down my nose” at the for dummies<\/a>\u00a0series of books<\/p>\n

I judged the book by it’s cover and decided i wouldn’t learn anything from them without actually taking a proper look at the content<\/p>\n

How wrong was i……<\/p>\n

After my post last week that talked about giving up what was left in the developer part of me<\/a>\u00a0i went home and had a cry (not really but i’m going for dramatic effect) then remembered a post i’d seen called “How to learn any subject in seven days”<\/a><\/p>\n

The basic idea is that you buy two books<\/p>\n

The for dummies version and then something else that is a little more comprehensive<\/p>\n

The first book eases you into it and gives you enough knowledge to get going where you can then move onto the more detailed reference when your comfortable with the basics<\/p>\n

I’ve actually tried to get into Visual Basic .Net several times but struggled with some concepts that are probably quite simple but i’d got the whole VB6 thing going on in my head (what do mean Using System.Web <\/em>?)<\/p>\n

So I went to Amazon and got these two<\/p>\n

Visual Web Developer 2005\u00a0Express Edition for Dummies<\/a><\/p>\n

Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition for Dummies<\/a><\/p>\n

Last night i installed Visual Web Developer and hit the first five chapters and it all fell into place<\/p>\n

While i wont be coding the next ShockeyMonkey<\/a> anytime soon i’ve made a start and i’ve got loads of ideas that i’m looking forward to trying out<\/p>\n

I do sometimes struggle to find books that are pitched at the right level but this experience has given me a broader view<\/p>\n

for dummies….i’m sorry, can we be friends?<\/p>\n

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