MAMEWorld Forums - Programming - Re: My teacher made this comment, what did he mean?

> > It's true - re-use of code will get you a long way. There are a lot of commodity
> > applications these days - applications that do essentially the same thing as each
> > other. A lot of the time you can take a piece of code that almost does what you
> want
> > and just slightly change it to suit your exact needs - copy and paste programming.
> > This can also get people into trouble when they start with code that isn't really
> > suitable to begin with.
>
> Your right, thanks for clearing that up... I'm very good with syntax and very odd, I
> have no idea how to actually sit down and write a real world program, can you help me
> get over that hump so that I may finally start making a buck out of this
> "profession"... You've been a huge help shalom...

Start small and work your way up. Your first applications don't have to do anything useful. Just think of something you want an application to do and write it. Then work on improving it. Try to make it the best it can be, even if it doesn't do much.