I 'll advice you get "Protecting your #1 Assets" by Micheal Lechter. It's highly informative. I believe you will be a lot clearer on how to protect your golden idea.

You can also get free and recent online dumbs at www.examcollection.com. In fact i got dumbs for TS:Microsoft .NET application foundation (70-536) from this website and i got 1000/1000.

I have one Online Test Engine that has been built and easily customizable to fit most exam scenarios. You can contact me with onlylakunce@yahoo.com.

Try reflector. That is what i use for C# codes. Get it from http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/

Good luck.

Becomming a programmer (or a software developer) is not that tough. Its requires more from your internal world that other external factors. The most important factor is your passion. You need to develop a great ("crazily" borning desire for creating a good quality software. Resolve within yourself to give it all it takes to produce the next generration of software that can fit into a global scale. After all these, then we can start to talk of where to start and want to do on each stage. Let me use my own experience to advice you how you may need to channel your movement. I am also a self made crazy software developer that asked these set of questions like you are asking right now in my infant stage of programming (precisely in my undergraduate days). Find below a list of steps. I think this will help you. I tried them from intuition and it worked perfectly for me. In your own case, enviroment will even favor you the more and you may get there even faster and with a relative amount of ease.

1.) Get a good PC.
You will need to have a good computer (desktop/laptop) laptop perferably for mobility reason.

2.) Decide which language (or technology) you want start with.
The major two competing leading technologies in the world of software and/or web development today are : Java and .NET (pronounced dot net). You can choose any of these technologies to start with. Although, other languages also exist like PHP, Perl, Rubby etc

3.) Gather study materials(books and videos) on your chosen technology or language.
Thank God for the internet, today its now possible to access good resources from the internet almost free of charge. Most expecially, for software development, there is a lot of resources (books, vodeos, journals, articles, weblogs, forums) that you can get absolotely fee of charge. Let me give you just a few online resources that i a have used in the recent past.
Books: www.ebookshare.net, www.4sahred.com
Videos: www.asp.net
articles: www.codeproject.com, www.javaworld.com, www.aspalliance.com
weblogs: www.joelonsoftware.com
forum: www.forums.microsoft.com/MSDN
and many more. The list unending. Just ask google the right questions.

4.) The Internet
This is not mandatory, But it is neccassary. As we all know, internet is a best source of information and resources.

5.) One or more developer friend(s).
This aspect is very important for a newbie in software development. The reason is simple. This is the person that will be putiing you through most of the time when you run into troubles. I believe there is a lot of crazy passionate developers on nairaland. You can decide making some of the your friend in case of when you will need thier assistance. Also you may find friends in your school or your enviroment. Enquire about the programmer in your community. Make them good friends so they can put you thruogh.

6.) Last but not the least, YOUR TIME
This is the most important in all that i have mentioned. You really have to be ready to give a lot of your time to it. This is one of the best venture of out time. But the funny thing is it does not require any capital. All the capital required is your time. You must be ready to sacrifice a lot your time, both day and night. I can remember when i was still in school, i used to be a student in the day and a CODER in the night. I am sure you can guess what that means. Thank God today, I am happy for it because, i am of the craziest passionate developers that Nigeria can be proud of. I major in PAYMENT and FINANCIAL solutions.

You may be surprised that i did not mention names of big IT Institutions around. The reason is simple. For you to be a good developer, you many not neccessarily go to any of those big-named schools. Even if you do, you will still need to follow the above metioned steps. I happened to be a trainer in a number of those schools before i changed fully to real development. I know what kind of stuffs they discharge. This does not condemn going there to learn more. But it does not really contribute, in great proportion as may be expected, to you becomming a BAD CODER tomorrow.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF CODERS,

Hello all, please which recomendable training center can i recieve CIS traing in lagos, Nigeria

Is this mondevelop.ide also an open source or freeware. If yes, kindly give the url to the dowload page

What a good news

Which area do u have expertise my friend, or u are one of those people that just came out of university/college with nothing but a lot of theories that cant hold water.

I started with gwBASIC, then qBASIC, then Fortran, COBOL, Visual BASIC, C, C++, Java, Visual Basic.Net, C# and lastly Flex(ActionScript). The truth is that you can stat with any high level programming language. Gonna those days in which programming language like C is referred to as programmers language and BASIC is referred to as beginners language. Nowadays, most of the famous programming languages like, Java, C#, Visual Basic.Net, PHP and others could be picked up by anybody and start learning from ground up. Just hack the development kit and a good book, and brain box and plenty cups of coffee. You will be up and running.

I am a Computer Science finaly year student. I have a challenge choosing a topic for my project. Can anybody in the house help me out with ideas

You can try Parkway Projects Limited. Send your cv to cokiche@parkwayprojects.com. I learnt that they are recruiting new developers. Hurry up man!!!

hey

This question will be incomplete without defining what a Computer Program is.

A Computer Program is a set instruction given to the computer in order to carry out an operation. All operations carried out by computers like printing documents, projection, business evaluation, hotel mangement etc are carried out by one program or the other. So, a programmer is an individual that can produce these programs used by computers.

Hope that simple xplanation helps.

Link up with Ahmed Macaulay @ onlylakunce@yahoo.com for directions.

I am interested. Please link me @ onlylakunce@yahoo.com.

Great idea! I am in 100% support and interested in this project. I am a Software developer with proviciency in developing windows-client, web-client, mobile-client, Business Logic, middle tiers etc. The tools i use include,
Language:
C#/VB.Net
ASP.NET
HTML/XHTML/Javascript
XML/XPath/XSTL
Development Studio
Visual Studio.Net 2003, 2005, 2008.
DBMS
Microsoft SQL Server
Oracle Database Server
MySql Database Server
Object Modelling
Microsoft Visio
Dia (Open source)
Object Relational Persistence
NHibernate

I expect your invitation mail on onlylakunce@yahoo.com (Macaulay Ahmed) as soon as possible.

You can try www.freetechbooks for free books on programming and computer science generally and of course visual basic books. You can also check out www.learnvisualstudio.net for free tutorial videos on visual studio.net which of course includes visual basic.NET , Best of luck

--notice a topo-error in initial reply www.freeteckbooks instead of www.freetechbooks. Sorry if this has caused u any stress--

If you are qualified, quickly send ur CV and u can never regret doing so. Enjoy,

You can try www.freeteckbooks for free books on programming and computer science generally and of course visual basic books. You can also check out www.learnvisualstudio.net for free tutorial videos on visual studio.net which of course includes visual basic.NET , Best of luck

More of the totur will still be done by you and yourself. However, you may need someone to show you how to move and what next step to make. In such a case, you may need someone like me. Contact me on onlylakunce@yahoo.com for further details. Enjoy,

Ok Laa, U ar powerfully welcome to Nairaland

With the look of things, Aptech is trying to groom you to be a software developer. But, alas my friend you don't have to go and spend 3 years in learning how to program. The question is if you spend 3 yrs on training, when will you start the real profession and when will you accrue experience.

If you really want to be a programmer, all you need is readiness to learn with strong mindset; a PC and books on your programming language of choice. However, if what you want to learn is not programming (may be network/database admin), then you can consider Aptech training

For your 3rd class issue, as far as IT profession is concern, most especially software development we are not interested in what you graduate with but what you can do as at present. So don't let that bother you. Just concentrate on your new chosen field and try to become a master.

Good Luck.

Thanx for the info somze

It depends on what kinds of programming you want be doing. For example PHP seems to best for developing basically web application while java is better when it comes to mobile application development. Although most modern languages are chosen basically not necessarily because of power (because any of them can be used to develop anything) but for personal preferences. As a beginner, you need a programming language that can really teach you how computer thinks. If you want to learn that with ease, BASIC will be the best choice. But if you think you are a very strong guy that will not be discouraged with bugs and debugging, Java or C# or any other modern language is cool for a start.

But please, you have to be ready to drink a lot of coffee and read while trying out few lines of code in the beginning.

Good Luck

I already have a project of this nature. If you don't mind you can contact me on onlylakunce@yahoo.com. Let's talk on what amendments to make to suit you situations.

OK kulu, no probs.

Really splendid!!!
Thanx for bringing such a valuable info to the house.

I dont av C/C++ IDE here to compile a C/C++ program.
But if u dont mind, this is a simple C# version for it.
A C# console program, written and tested working fine!

using System;

class binomial_probability
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
int x = 2, n = 5;
float p = 0.1265f;
double prob = Probability(x, n, p);
Console.WriteLine("Binomial Probalibity for x={0}, n={1}, P={2} is {3}", x, n, p, prob);
}

public static long Factorial(int n)
{
long fact = 1;
if (n > 0)
{
for (long i = 1; i <= n; i++)
fact *= i;
}
else fact = 0;
return fact;
}

public static double Probability(int x, int n, float p)
{
//probability={n!/((n-x)!*x!)}*(P^x)*((1-P)^(n-x))
double prob = (Factorial(n) / Factorial(n - x) * Factorial(x)) * Math.Pow(p, x) * Math.Pow((1 - p), (n - x));
return prob;
}
}

Have a great day