Continuing my updates on the progress of my Lottery Program, I recently got it to parse the Mega Millions website to get the latest numbers. Basically it gets a text file, which I have yet to get the program to extract just what I want, but I am making progress slow and sure. I am a little rusty as I haven’t been programming like I should on a constant basis. It got me to break out Murach’s C# 2005 and Visual C# 2005 How to Program (2nd Edition) (How to Program)
, two great books on learning C# (I am guessing they both will be updating for Visual Studio 2007/2008 whatever it may be called, since there seems to be some major advances coming with it).
I really could use winning a small sum from the lottery myself. Beyond the need for new(er) cars, I could also use a good laptop so I could work on my programming lessons and stuff while away from the main PC (such as spending the day at Borders, or during my breaks at work and so on).
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Planned books:
- The Dark River (Fourth Realm Trilogy, Book 2) by John Twelve Hawks
- A Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston
- Feed (Newsflesh, Book 1) by Mira Grant
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Recent books:
- Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
- Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert
- The Copywriter’s Handbook, Third Edition: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Copy That Sells by Robert W. Bly
- The Traveler (Fourth Realm Trilogy, Book 1) by John Twelve Hawks
- Jonathan Strange by Susanna Clarke
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