topic Re: Use Student Version for Development? in .NET Forum

Use Student Version for Development?

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:26:50 GMT

Hello,

Son wants to follow in Dad's footsteps. He's learning the ropes on his own. VC# Express and "StudentCAD". He's a college sophmore. He's been asking me if the student version would be good for development. As far as I know the only difference is the watermark. I've never touched it as he's over thousand miles away. Anyone know?

Rudedog
"Thanks ahead of time."

Re: Use Student Version for Development?

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:42:30 GMT

I'm pretty sure the ToS state that an educational license cannot be used for commercial purposes (ie development)

Re: Use Student Version for Development?

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:51:11 GMT

You can get AutoCAD Electrical (AutoCAD Vanilla with an Electrical package) for free
if you have a student email. Have him download and try it - I'd be suppressed if they didn't let
students practice with .Net.
http://students2.autodesk.com/

wrote in message news:5688491@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hello,

Son wants to follow in Dad's footsteps. He's learning the ropes on his own. VC# Express and "StudentCAD". He's a college
sophmore. He's been asking me if the student version would be good for development. As far as I know the only difference is
the watermark. I've never touched it as he's over thousand miles away. Anyone know?

Rudedog
"Thanks ahead of time."

Re: Use Student Version for Development?

jbooth — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:11:32 GMT

You can program anything you want with the student version, given that you do not violate the terms of service you agreed to when you installed the software.

The student version should not be missing any features unless it's AutoCAD LT.

Can it be done? Yes. Weather or not you should is based on what you intend to do.

Re: Use Student Version for Development?

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:37:52 GMT

Thanks for the input. He's just a college student learning .NET. Became fascinated with my Visual Studio over the summer. Nothing commercial going on at all.

Rudedog =8^)>

Re: Use Student Version for Development?

Anonymous — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:42:02 GMT

I think I misunderstood your comment. When you said development I saw it as commercial development(not self development).

Re: Use Student Version for Development?

Anonymous — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:02:43 GMT

I re-read it. It wasn't that clear anyway. Kid's coming along fast learning VC#. He loves the concept of the FCL. He's lucky. He never learned procedure oriented programming like I did....in far too many languages.

Re: Use Student Version for Development?

Anonymous — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:45:08 GMT

Tried it today on student version - works fine.
wrote in message news:5688491@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hello,

Son wants to follow in Dad's footsteps. He's learning the ropes on his own. VC# Express and "StudentCAD". He's a college
sophmore. He's been asking me if the student version would be good for development. As far as I know the only difference is
the watermark. I've never touched it as he's over thousand miles away. Anyone know?

Rudedog
"Thanks ahead of time."

Re: Use Student Version for Development?

dgorsman — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:12:04 GMT

Lucky, lucky, kid. Did you start with assembly code?

Re: Use Student Version for Development?

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:15:25 GMT

Started out looking at a PDP-8 through an ASR-33. My high school upgraded to a VT-100 my senior year. That was cool. Still needed the teletype to save programs. Learned BASIC back in 1971.

My kid is real lucky. He got his VS2005 for free from Microsoft. I had to pay for mine when it first came out.

Rudedog
"Fooling computers since 1971."