beginners C# project

[TcM]

Yeah sure, if everyone lived in a kids fantasy land where everything is possible.

[Jordan]

He did say random. He could take your name, convert it to base 10 (Ascii numbers), use that to seed a random generator that takes the result and displays text from an array (holding all the personalities) at the result index.

[Xav]

Exactly. To be honest, the usual ones are rather cliched, so I thought maybe more of an interesting one might be cool - after all, you don't know what your personality is going to be like before you run it...

@ nice avatar, Jordan!

[TcM]

Originally Posted by Jordan

He did say random. He could take your name, convert it to base 10 (Ascii numbers), use that to seed a random generator that takes the result and displays text from an array (holding all the personalities) at the result index.

Yeah.. if you want to generate a fake one. I thought he actually wanted this to be real.

[Jordan]

You could if you added a survey and took 8 years of psychology.

[spooky_mulder]

Hi, why dont you try doing some apps using ado.net, a simple connection to MS access database. any app that manages some kind of inventory ( video club, shop ).. or a zoo, where you can apply the terms of classes of inheritance, structs or every thing you can test, arrays, enums, etc etc.

[zeroradius]

When I was doing C# they had us make grade books. 8 of them all together adding more and more each time. They are farely useless but it forces you to use a lot of the skills you learn in the beginning. Or if you wan't to make somthing you will acualy use i sugest a "personal assistant" for lack of a better word, Still working on mine, so far it has a text editor, web browser, address book, and a paint program. If you go with making one of those you can just keep adding stuff as you learn more and more. Good luck

[Xav]

Yes, those are some good suggestions. The text editor introduces basic file I/O, the web browser demonstrates networks, and the paint program uses graphics. For a database, though, I still stand by my vote - XML files are the way to go.

[zeroradius]

The address book uses a ms access database. I have not done XML as of yet so I can't coment on that.

[Xav]

XML is simply a type of file that is a cross between a text file and a database. You can use it to store, add or delete data, just like in a database. All RSS feeds etc. are XML files.

Considering C# uses the .NET Framework, it is far easier to use XML as a database than the normal ADO.NET (which uses MS Access databases). Using the System.Xml namespace, you can load, edit and save records just like a normal database, but easier too. Remember, XML files are just text files, so you can use the normal System.IO objects to manipulate them, unlike normal databases, which are .mdb files, so you can't create them in code.