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[Hignar]

Everyone else seems to have one of these threads, so I may as well join the party.

Who wants to get the ball rolling?

[Hignar]

Not sure I can really have a favourite yet. I spent a few years dabbling with c# but never anything really serious. I let what I learnt slip away until a few months ago when I decided to get back into programming and start taking it a little more seriously. I've even managed to get some paid work out of it, but that was in web design rather than programming. Since then I've re-learnt a lot of c#, learnt some python and most recently decided to move entirely onto linux and concentrate on c++.

At the moment I'd probably be most productive using c#, but I think I prefer c++.

[Hignar]

I know some php, but I've not done anything with it yet.

[ZekeDragon]

How goes your C++ learning, are you a l337 C++ pro yet?

[Hignar]

Lol, certainly not a l33t pro just yet. Things are coming along nicely though. I just wish I could find a bit more time to dedicate to it. I'm sure I'll have plenty more questions for the C++ forum yet.

[Termana]

Do you work full time as a programmer?

[Hignar]

No, far from it in fact. I'm actually an accountant. So far programming has only been a hobby.

[debtboy]

What other hobbies do you have?

[ZekeDragon]

Could you explain what kind of needs accountants have from their software, seeing as you're both an accountant and a programmer, it should be much easier for you to explain in a way that would be effective for programmers to design something from?

EDIT: I don't mean now, I mean if pressed for the information... or like... if you wanted to. :P

[Hignar]

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Could you explain what kind of needs accountants have from their software, seeing as you're both an accountant and a programmer, it should be much easier for you to explain in a way that would be effective for programmers to design something from?

EDIT: I don't mean now, I mean if pressed for the information... or like... if you wanted to.

You've actually hit on something I've been thinking about recently. Most software for accountants is either designed by programmers with little real* accountancy knowledge or by accountants with little programming knowledge which is why, for the most part, almost all of my work is done on excel.

The only accountancy based software I use is Sage Line 50 and an package of accountancy and tax software called Iris. Both are pretty good up to a certain level, but certainly have annoyances and limitations.

So, yes, I feel that I could probably explain what we need from software.


* By real accountancy knowledge I mean how a set of accounts is actually prepared and presented. There is a lot more to it than just double entry.