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Hello everybody, As the subject line points out I am new here. My main goal from joining here is to meet people who program and start building a network of people who I can actually discuss programming with and learn from on a more personal level than a google search as well as help people when I can. To start I am 19 years old, from Canada. I am finishing upgrading my high school courses this winter and am entering into university for computer science in the fall. I already have a functional understanding of Java, as well I understand HTML to a usable extent(who doesn't), although my CSS is terrible. Most of what I do is play video-games, though I am joining this community to try and weave that out of my life. Does anybody have any tips on effectively contributing to this community?
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Welcome to CP. How's the weather up there my northern neighbor?
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Daniel Andersonfl wrote: Does anybody have any tips on effectively contributing to this community?
Don't feed the animals.
Properly research before asking any technical questions (in the proper forum).
Decide what you want to do "programming-wise" and have fun investigating code related to that field/domain.
Shutdown your computer from time to time and go out to do something else.
I'd rather be phishing!
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And don't post with a subject of "Thought of the day". That is a reserved subject line for someone else.
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Daniel Andersonfl wrote: Does anybody have any tips on effectively contributing to this community?
1. Think of something that you'd really like to have (web page, web app, java app, etc).
2. Build it
3. While you're building it, think about :
a) why it might be interesting to someone else
b) how you would explain what you are doing to someone else.
4. Write up all those best parts and all the parts you had difficulty with.
Seriously, if you do that. You'll find out that people respond because you'll be writing interesting stuff in a way that people start learning.
This place is about learning so it will be a huge success.
Go for it!!! And welcome to the community.
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Welcome to the Lounge. My advice: Follow the good suggestions above, but also take time to read forums like the Lounge and Soapbox, so that you can develop a feel for what is appropriate in which forum.
Read the guidelines for the forums written by Chris Maunder at the top and try to stick to his guidance. You will go far! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Daniel Andersonfl wrote: Does anybody have any tips on effectively contributing to this community?
Participate. To start with, the lounge is full of interesting discussions and people get to know you that way. You could start by responding to people who responded to you. 
And welcome!
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Daniel Andersonfl wrote: Most of what I do is play video-games, though I am joining this community to try and weave that out of my life.
To each their own but it's still nice to have something to do when you aren't developing or learning. Sometimes I'll hop in a game for a short time to clear my mind, come back to my code-base, and have a fresher/clearer view of what I need to do. Kinda like the toilet phenomenon but more fun 
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Daniel Andersonfl wrote: Does anybody have any tips on effectively contributing to this community?
Depends on what you mean exactly by that word but certainly one definition would suggest that you should stay out of the Lounge and Soapbox forums. Nothing effective there. The specific programming forums are fine.
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Welcome Daniel!
You get out of CP, what you put into CP, imo. ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
The first article is always the worst one so get it over with.
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Just to repeat with raddevus said, get a project to work on. The web itself is great, but it's littered with tons of a tidbits here and there written by people who never test or check code... that's not production quality. So sometimes it's just wrong, poorly explained, etc. A project will force you to figure out what's going on.
The best of the best work on projects mate, and they learn the hard way. Get one, create one, join one.
Also, where do you want to go in your career? Java tends itself to be more "enterprisey" situations... some websites, some data processing, etc. Think Point of Sale, Reporting, even mobile dev, etc. If you like wearing a bow and tie and don't like being creative, but want to sound super smart because nobody dare questions your pie charts... then Java is for you.
The C# sharp world is more application oriented. This includes the desktop and web. Like Java, all you need to do is quote something Microsoft-y to sound smart and command high pay. The most important thing is to note you don't bother to actually learn what your project is doing. It's just generated code of 5 million files that work like magic... until it doesn't.
Then there's JavaScript and Node. My personal favorite. The web is the future even still. The key to JavaScript is to remember that it will make you its b*tch. So just go ahead and accept that right now. You're a puppet, but damn you can make some cool websites that nobody else can. Too bad the tech you wrote it in is already deprecated by the time you release.
If you like Ruby, then there's Rails. It's what you learn when you don't want to learn to do anything. Somehow some way, it's already coded. You just have to click a button and voila. Just don't customize it... you've been warned.
Then there's big data. It's a fancy way of saying you work on charts and diagrams to crunch numbers. It's language agnostic generally speaking. They're like the lawyers of programming, nobody really wants to pour through millions of records (like law books) but good golly they're useful when you're in a crunch.
So, pick a project man. My suggestion is aim for the fun route at first. After the years tack on, programming will seem more like work, but at first do it for the fun of creating. So pick something fun.
Jeremy Falcon
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downloaded vs2017
at the end
Error: Setup completed with errors.
Error: One or more errors occurred.
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an error in the error, or is the error an error?
I am so confusings. How to go? Helping me pleases. pict[^]
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Lopatir wrote: I am so confusings. How to go? Helping me pleases
When you figure it out, let me know. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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When you know, let me know. 
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states:
correct: 0
error: 1
then
error + error + (zero or more errors) = correct
problem solved
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Better yet, when he figures it out, tell Microsoft. They haven't known for years...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Lopatir wrote: Helping me pleases
Helping you pleases whom?
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Himself, of course!
Will Rogers never met me.
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Are you trying to install VS 2017 on a Windows 7 machine? I am not sure you can achieve full functionality unless your OS is Windows 10. (Especially for UWP projects) ?
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I love being told (not once, but twice) that errors occurred, yet there's nothing that even describes at least the nature of the errors. What are you supposed to do with that (lack of) information?
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I believe you just won !
Peel the screen off your monitor and mail it to MicroStuff, along with a Self Addressed Stamped Envelope so they can send you your prize.*
* No purchase necessary - they already got your money.
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hmmm, not much use for a homeless man, nor a blanket
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If it successfully logged the error, then that's success.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: If it successfully logged the error, then that's success.
And it's a feature, not a bug.
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