This is a brief story of what I did these years after not becoming programmer in workforce.

Notably I am in my mid-40 and not doing full-time programmer since 2013. Well, I did do a part-time programmer job in 2020.

I used to be a VB guy, VB6 and VB.NET. But after I quit IT job industry, I spent time to run family business, traveled extensively to Australia, doing dispatch rider for 4 years and... start learning computer fundamentals by doing 32-bit and 64-bit low-level programming.

I miss the full-time programmer job. What I did as hobbyist programmer cannot replace the professional job skill demanded by IT companies these days.
I wish I could leverage .NET C# effortlessly compared to programming menial work using Assembly language where I have to write different source code for each CPU architecture and each operating system. It simply is a lot of work, and not easily scalable. Cross compiler and virtual machine bytecode is really good here.

With my age coming to 50, I think no IT company will hire me anymore, especially now is not VB world anymore.
In the mean time, what I can do is keep doing self-learning, understanding the computer fundamentals.

(End of story)

This post has been edited by MatQuasar: Nov 6 2023, 07:24 PM

Your imagination limit what you could do.

Most of the time, changing is painful.

Changing from dos to win xp,
than xp to vista / 7, follow by win 10 / 11,
now most user asked for mobile app and mobile friendly website...

As you have used c#, you're capable to do cross platform apps by using dot net core.

I always recommend using right tool to do appropriate works,
choose to do something that people willing to use.

We could do app for ourselves, but if we really use it.

I have done a notepad for myself, but throw it away and use other's notepad.

The other app i developed for myself still using is because nobody remove it and it run as scheduler.



This post has been edited by flashang: Nov 5 2023, 11:19 AM

miss vb. i am also ex vb6 programmer. now wash hand already.

vb.net and c# is very much alike, almost every line in vb.net can be translated to equivalent single line of c# code. some projects allow you to use both vb.net and c# code together.

Even though I am currently a full stack web dev.... I cannot runaway from VB6.

I'm still maintaining the VB6 app I made for my company to be sold to private sector.

This post has been edited by alanyuppie: Nov 15 2023, 04:17 PM

vb6 still run on newer pc like win7/8/10/11 ? no issue with something like "dll hell" ?

Miraculously, yes... my dev machine is running win 11. Since we have moved on towards web apps development ... I seldom able to improve upon this VB6 app that I coded more than 10 years ago, catering for 1028 x 768 (gasp!) resolution monitor for clients back then.

Integration with newer MS-OFFICE is tricky though.

This post has been edited by alanyuppie: Nov 16 2023, 07:36 AM

Remember, it was you rejected yourself.
Not the market.

You rejected to change.

This post has been edited by ifourtos: Nov 15 2023, 09:54 PM

I think its a blessing in disguise. TS is doing well career-wise outside of coding world. Being a full time coder (regardless of language) at middle age is detrimental in the long run. regardless of how sharp our brain/competency/driven we are, our eyes is not as good as we once were (rabun tua anyone?).

I'd suggest TS just code casually and start some passion project as a bucket list, no rush/hurry, no deadlines, no stress.

This post has been edited by alanyuppie: Nov 16 2023, 07:43 AM

ever done any project that is not reinventing the wheel? to me ur nfo viewer, compiler and space invaders projects are all useless from my point of view...is very hard to come up with project idea but cannot be until totally none

i was a vb6 guys but i just lack of motivation

Maybe you're right, I almost mastered ASP.NET in 2004, but I resigned and gave up before I had the chance to master it.
If I mastered ASP.NET back then, my programming career will be different, because ASP.NET web programming is even relevant until today.

Thanks for your comment. Maybe except my ASCII art animation project is a different idea:

https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...ost&p=106356741

reserved

This post has been edited by MatQuasar: Dec 29 2023, 03:56 PM