Retrospect

My programming career begin when I got into a software firm in the year 2003. Just out of high school, I was hired as a C++ programmer working in Visual C++ in the meantime i was doing my bachelors in computers on a part-time basis. The knowledge of VC++ in me was mostly self taught and this employment gave was an opportunity to extend my knowledge base. I consider myself so blessed to have been chosen for that role.

Working in VC++ is a wonderful experience. Albeit it is a rather complex language and may take some time to get the hang of things. Once fallen in love with it, you will have a hard time to get separated. The beauty of OOPS and easy access to Win32 Apis are the notable advantages of the language. The code reusability saved many hours of our programming time, the classes in C++ is really a great way to organize the code in large projects.

MFC is indeed a boon for programmers since it streamlines most of the win32 apis providing a bunch of C++ friendly classes. This object oriented framework can be used by application developers to create windows application easily. Since MFC handles most of the windows related tasks such as message handling and routing developers can concentrate on the business logic. The MFC has classes that abstracts apis for Windows, Threads, Networking, handling mouse keyboard etc.

The Visual C++ IDE has numerous functions and it would be more than a Herculean task to code a program in C++ without the IDE. Debugging is no longer a difficult task, thanks to the numerous debugging functions supported by the IDE.

I also had chance to work with C# which I believe is a brain-friendly version of Visual C++. .net frameworks’ vast library with ready made solutions drastically reduced the software development time.

Coming to web development, I spent most of the time on developing applications with ASP and ASP.net.

I thank GOD for giving me all these wonderful opportunities. HE has blessed me with so much. All these are a big part of who I am today.