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Which Language should I learn?

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Anonymous
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Which Language should I learn?

Hello,
I have gotten approval from my company to take a 5 day programming course of
my choice.
The goal being that I can begin doing some Inventor customization and
interfacing with our ERP and SQL server.

I have no prior programming experience (Other than BASIC waaaay back when)
Therefore I am trying to decide whether to jump into VB.NET or C#.NET

The general rough consensus as I understand it is that C# is a little harder
to learn , but when learned you can do everything that you could with VB and
then some. Is this correct?

I guess what I am looking for is not only to be able to get up to speed
quickly, but I want learn something that will be around for a long time and
will provide the functionality I need.

Any advice?

Thanks
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Message 2 of 6
sebastianwang
in reply to: Anonymous

5 days is only enough to learn VB or VBA in IV5.3.

Sebastian Wang
Message 3 of 6
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Yes I realize that, generally I will learn faster
if I begin with an intensive class, This will give me the foundation to build
upon rather than trying to start from scratch.

 

I think what I will do is take a VB.NET class and
then take an Inventor API class from Autodesk

This should get me started..


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5
days is only enough to learn VB or VBA in IV5.3.

Sebastian Wang

Message 4 of 6
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

There are some issues with using VB.Net and the Inventor API. We're just
beginning to investigate them and at this time don't know if they are
problems with .Net or with the API. If you're wanting to get going quickly
on programming Inventor things will go much smoother if you begin with
Visual Basic 6.
--
Brian Ekins
Autodesk Inventor API Product Designer


"Dustin Swartz" wrote in message
news:97E8204DF142559FC8E2454234D369BF@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> Hello,
> I have gotten approval from my company to take a 5 day programming course
of
> my choice.
> The goal being that I can begin doing some Inventor customization and
> interfacing with our ERP and SQL server.
>
> I have no prior programming experience (Other than BASIC waaaay back when)
> Therefore I am trying to decide whether to jump into VB.NET or C#.NET
>
> The general rough consensus as I understand it is that C# is a little
harder
> to learn , but when learned you can do everything that you could with VB
and
> then some. Is this correct?
>
> I guess what I am looking for is not only to be able to get up to speed
> quickly, but I want learn something that will be around for a long time
and
> will provide the functionality I need.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
Message 5 of 6
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Thanks for the heads up. Guess I'll do the VB6 first

"Brian Ekins" wrote in message
news:7714767C22BB9BC92DCA927506FDB86A@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> There are some issues with using VB.Net and the Inventor API. We're just
> beginning to investigate them and at this time don't know if they are
> problems with .Net or with the API. If you're wanting to get going
quickly
> on programming Inventor things will go much smoother if you begin with
> Visual Basic 6.
> --
> Brian Ekins
> Autodesk Inventor API Product Designer
>
>
> "Dustin Swartz" wrote in message
> news:97E8204DF142559FC8E2454234D369BF@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > Hello,
> > I have gotten approval from my company to take a 5 day programming
course
> of
> > my choice.
> > The goal being that I can begin doing some Inventor customization and
> > interfacing with our ERP and SQL server.
> >
> > I have no prior programming experience (Other than BASIC waaaay back
when)
> > Therefore I am trying to decide whether to jump into VB.NET or C#.NET
> >
> > The general rough consensus as I understand it is that C# is a little
> harder
> > to learn , but when learned you can do everything that you could with VB
> and
> > then some. Is this correct?
> >
> > I guess what I am looking for is not only to be able to get up to speed
> > quickly, but I want learn something that will be around for a long time
> and
> > will provide the functionality I need.
> >
> > Any advice?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
>
>
Message 6 of 6
joesu
in reply to: Anonymous

I would avoid the VB.Net class as most of what you'll learn be not do you much good with Inventor. Plus, if you have only minimum experience [such as you indicated], I would definely recommend that you NOT start with the VB.Net course. JMHO.

Joe
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