February 2010
Beginner
400 pages
11h 13m
English
Content preview from Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010
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About the Author
I have always had an interest in computers and started out programming with a hobbyist language called Amos on the Amiga. I had originally wanted to be a games developer, but this never happened as I instead found myself drawn to Internet development. I think I blame books such as William Gibson's Neuromancer. Neuromancer contains a fantastic quote that I'll always remember: "The Matrix unfolds like neon origami beneath clusters and constellations of data." Fantastic stuff—although Gibson's world didn't contain the wonder that is IE6.
My first commercial development experience was at university (Business Computing with Psychology, ...