Hi all,
My name is Paul McDonald and I am new to this group. I look forward to learning and participating in the discussions in this group. I am new at programming and I enjoy challenges of learning new languages and things. I am wondering as a general discussion thread to the group, how do experienced programmers start design and programming from scratch, and what does the role of free code and code libraries on the net have when programming files and programs for distribution, isn't there a certain expectation of enviable discovery with code? I mean there is only so many ways u can display the clock in the tool bar and to find the code on the web saves time, is it not reasonable to use that code in the new program? And if there is lots of people offended by the idea that code that is publically published should not be used, what is the "correct" way to utilize such code in programming? Just some questions I have been dwelling over as I start to learn to program. Your more than welcome to contact me directly with thoughts and answers but for the benefit of the group I would love to see a good conversation about both sides if they exist of the last question. Thanks for the time and including me in this group Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
