Programming, .NET, Silverlight & More

have installed silverlight2 beta and installation was successful but don’t know how to ues it

Below is a wiki link, all else can be answered on microsoft web site

What is the best school to attend in New York City for someone interested in Computer Programming? Many of the schools either offer an Associates degree or if they do offer a Bachelor of Arts, it is in Computer Science and the curriculum does not expand on the various computer languages used in computer programming. I took a look at Long Island University, which does not seem too bad.

Well, you probably *do* want to look for those computer science programs (ones with BS [Bachelor of Science] programs are better). A typical computer science program will generally start with a pretty fast paced class on programming in one language, follow it up with a class that teaches you a few common algorithms and the like while sharpening your coding skills, and then begin expanding to courses on rudimentary computer architecture/hardware, some basic logic/math type stuff, and then some subject specific classes (many or most of which involve lots or good amounts of programming).

The reason you won’t find a lot of big college programs on programming with lots of classes on different languages (e.g. "Intro to C", "C++ II", "Intermediate FORTRAN", etc) is that to a large extent, once you’ve learned one language, it’s very easy to learn another language. So they teach you one language, and more or less expect you to pick up other languages as needed.

I’m afraid I don’t know the universities of NYC too well to give you more specific advice and information.

The question says how much sales would be needed to have a net income of 2.5 million. It has all the info but what is the formula to get the required sales?

Use an Income Statement as a template and work backwords from Net Income. Make sure whether or not the problem asks to disregard taxes or not. I guess a simple version would look something like this.

Sales ???????
COGS 100,000
Op Exp 70,000
Taxes 40,000
NI 25,000

I assume this is for an accounting class?

My friend put together my small business website in dreamweaver for me. However, I now want to maintain it myself—my friend recommended putting it into wordpress. However, I am not a web designer and have no idea what I’m doing—is there an easy way to convert my current website from dreamweaver to wordpress (for someone who can’t read code, etc)

Thanks!

You better begin by learning a little bit about Wordpress (which is not difficult btw). I advise you to download XAMPP to have a local apache web server (www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html) where you can install wordpress (wordpress.org) and test it locally.
Then you have to chose a theme that suits your site, there are hundreds of free quality themes or if you can afford it, go for a premium theme (20$ to 150$ in general).
After you get familiar with wordpress, you can install it on your live server, put your theme, and begin importing (copy / paste ? yeah). You have to chose between putting your old articles as posts or as pages, posts are good if you plan a blog-like site. Ther’s also hundreds of free plugins for each single feature you may think about.

Good luck!

I’m a novice to programming, I want to program a game, which program should I use?

Please state reasons why

Thank you

If you’re making a game that you want people to be able to play in their browsers, you should really go with Flash instead of Java or Silverlight. The language (ActionScript 3) is pretty easy to learn, and almost everyone has Flash. Almost no one has Silverlight.

{{{wpf}}} Now that was funny!

Robert Plants voice is like buttah to me. Not that I don’t love U2…..
………Lughnasadh! Who wants to celebrate with me, my fresh baked bread and a bottle of wine?

Bonus Question: Pick one person in your contacts and tell me what Led Zeppelin song they would be?

Also, who is it?
Mine would be Whatever and he gets two songs.

I can’t quit you baby
Kashmire (Because I think it fits his personality and mine)

Not a U2 song? Geez, who did I piss of in this category this time?

I pick So-Crates, and he’s "Good Times, Bad Times"

No music compares to Led Zeppelin. I would be "Ramble on" because I say way too much sometimes.

Is it really neccessary to get a bachelos in computer programming or am i good with an AS? I would really love to know. Thank you
I am asking because i don’t really see that many programs that offer a Ba in Computer Programming. Also,can anyone tell me what kind of money a freelance web designer/programer could make?

It really depends on what you want to do. But if your intention is to get a full time job in development soon after graduating, I would strongly suggest going for the bachelor’s degree. Programming is difficult to learn, and knowing this, companies like to see that somebody spent a longer time period learning it before offering them programming jobs. That is not to say that you can’t get a job in programming with just an AS, especially if you have good skills. But I can almost gaurantee that you won’t make as much money as someone who has a BS in a similar position.

Iam planning to take some college courses online and have a tight budget, was wondering if a net book would work for this.

Probably not. The screens on netbooks are only 9-10". That’s too small to see what you’re doing. You need a real computer.

SilverLight is basically Microsoft’s professional version of FLASH.

It needs programming skills of ASP.NET but here is the designing and developing kit:
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9206629

I want to learn computer programming on my own so i WANT SOMETHING THAT WILL TEACH ME EVERYTHING i NEED TO KNOW AND SOMETHING THAT WILL EXPLAIN IT WELL.

A book targeted at the novice in computer programming is
Beginning Programming for Dummies by Wallace Wang.
Besides a good introduction (chapter 1: Learning Computer Programming for the First Time), it has a CD with Liberty Basic,

There are also many on-line courses, such as

http://www.learn-programming.za.net/ which gives an introduction
to several languages (C, C++, C#, Java, Pascal,…)

and

http://www.programmingtutorials.com/,
a site with links to the programming language you prefer.

Good luck.