[tde-users] Re: Fw: Education Direction

On Friday 30 June 2023 06:55:03 pm Mike Bird via tde-users wrote: What Mike said, but... I have 8 years college (2 CS, 4 MIS, 2 MBA) and have written code in over a hundred different languages from the low level of assembler to the high level of CASE tools. You do need a good grounding in computer science (well logic really), but you don’t have to get that from a college per se. A decent online course in a beginner language will give you about 70-80% of the foundation you need to write okay code in most any language. Writing ‘great’ code above and beyond that is either a) mostly up to the individual’s commitment to learn and follow the specific language’s, or organization's, coding standards or b) being really good at picking up those standards from code you’re editing or patching. As to C++, which you’ll need an answer to this from Mike and/or the other TDE devs: If the TDE code base uses any Object Oriented type structure, you will need to do some learning on OO. OO is significantly different enough from procedural based languages, that it is hard to write in if you only have a procedural foundation. The dev’s can also give recommendations as to what editor to use to make ‘life easier’ in relation to writing code for TDE. (I use Kwrite for everyday ‘stuff,’ but I don’t recommend it for any OO language.)