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Installing the course prerequisites
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Hey guys, if you have any problems with the course prerequisites, please post here, and hopefully someone will post a solution to it.
I still have about 10-15 hours of time left to download the apps.
I will add adventure works to my list of downloads.
I have never done this type of course before
I use skype or oovoo to chat and do video
I am at GMT +4.5 so no time will really be good for me
Level of Programing (5)
I wrote my first code in 1969 in Fortran have dabbled in programing off and on since.
Never had any formal training. while with DEC did a LOT of batch file programing.
Still solve most problems in windows with batch files
.Net (2)
Always heard .NET called .Nyet by the code heads around me
C (3)
played around in C in the past also C++
SQL / RDB (4)
Understand the concept of DB's. I wrote a real dumb solar system generator in AppleSoft in the 80s. Relational DB's? I also understand them, I have read and mostly under Guy Kawasaki's book on DB's. But i have never created them.
what do you suggest for us MAC heads? I also have a Ubuntu system here.
For those of you who don't have a windows system, you could download Mono, and a dbms that runs on Mac/Linux. I have no idea how any of that works, just that it should be possible to run a pseudo .net system on a non windows environment.
hi,
haven't tested it yet, but monodevelop is available for more or less every OS: http://monodevelop.com/.
I have no idea how useable it is for this course though...
MySQL should also be available on Non-Windows Systems.
If your system is powerful enough, you might also try running VS in a Virtualbox.
1) Visual C# 2010 Express installed under Vista. Not sure about XP. Had error messages.
2) SQL Server 2008 R2 installed under Vista, failed under XP.
3) Have you installed the sample database AdventureWorks? No
4) Has anyone attended a course similar to this before? no
5) Do you have a preference for weeknight (GMT) vs weekend AM (GMT) live
sessions? PM works best for my timezone (EST)
If you could give me an answer 1-10 for the following questions:
1) What is your level of computer programming? 8
2) What is your understanding of the .NET framework? 1
3) Have you ever programmed in any C based or derived language? 5 - C
4) Do you understand SQL Server and relational databases? 5
Managed to:
1) Installed Visual C# 2010 Express
2) Installed SQL Server 2008 R2
3) Installed AdventureWorks.
Did this on win7 - if you need help with the above give me a shout.
4)Never attended a similar course. Happy to use skype but I hope that the lessons are available to download somewhere in case we miss one.
5) No preference.
1) What is your level of computer programming? 5
2) What is your understanding of the .NET framework? 5
3) Have you ever programmed in any C based or derived language? 5
4) Do you understand SQL Server and relational databases? 5
Hi,
1-3)
i have managed to install monodevelop/mysql on Gentoo Linux, seems to be working fine. Also installed Visual Studio/SQL-Server2008 and Adventureworks on WinXP in a Virtualbox.
Anish: Could you tell me which parts of the Adventureworks-Package we'll need? So i can check compatibility with MySQL?
4)Never attended a course like this before. Never used skype before, but other IM's like jabber/gtalk etc..
Are you gonna stream video via skype? Why not setup a single web-server for streaming video + chat?
5)if you ask.. wednesdays ~19:00 UTC would be good. Or other weeknights...
Answers:
1)7
2)2
3)4
4)5
You're going to need the main database and the related tables. I'm guessing there must be some port of Adventure Works to MySql somewhere. I run SQL Server and Visual Studio in Virtual Box on a macbook air, it works just fine, albiet a lot slower than my PC version.
1 - 3
I was able to install all the software on Win 7
4) Any chat tool would be extremely useful, I have skype, AIM, and Trilian.
5) Any weeknight or weekday, weekends I am completely unavailable because of work. (CDT)
1) What is your level of computer programming? 3
2) What is your understanding of the .NET framework? 1
3) Have you ever programmed in any C based or derived language? 2 - had a C class in high school.
4) Do you understand SQL Server and relational databases?1 - no knowledge
1-3: Installed Express, SQL, and AdventureWorks on win7
4) Has anyone attended a course similar to this before?
No first time taking online course.
Im open to any form but would be good if it had ability to record live sessions
5) Do you have a preference for weeknight (GMT) vs weekend AM (GMT) live
sessions?
Given weeknight GMT is smack in the middle of the day for PST (it would interfere with work)I would prefer weekend AM
1) What is your level of computer programming? 5
2) What is your understanding of the .NET framework? 2
3) Have you ever programmed in any C based or derived language? 5
4) Do you understand SQL Server and relational databases? 2
1) Have you managed to install Visual Studio 2010 or Visual C# 2010 Express?
** Yes.
2) Have you managed to install SQL Server 2008 R2?
** Yes.
3) Have you installed the sample database AdventureWorks?
** Yes
4) Has anyone attended a course similar to this before? Do you know if Skype would be a viable option for giving the course or do you have any other free
suggestions?
** Have not attended any course similar to this. Skype would be ok, no preference.
5) Do you have a preference for weeknight (GMT) vs weekend AM (GMT) live
sessions?
** I follow EST time zone. So, GMT -5hrs. I don't know what would be convenient for instructor. Maybe a session time period that can accommodate both GMT and EST?
If you could give me an answer 1-10 for the following questions:
1) What is your level of computer programming? (1 - never programmed in any
language, 10 - I may as well be inducted into the programming hall of fame)
** 1
2) What is your understanding of the .NET framework? (1 - Isn't it that thing
at the end of a bunch of website names?, 10 - Was part of the CLR design
team)
** 1
3) Have you ever programmed in any C based or derived language? (1 - nope, 10
- C, C++, Java, C# are all things on my CV)
** 1
4) Do you understand SQL Server and relational databases? (1 - What's a
database?, 10 - red hot T-SQL skills and have experience in SQL Server and
one or more alternatives)
** 1 - only little experience creating relational database in MS Access.