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I am going to start developing some software applications soon. Is anyone interested in helping me out by looking at and testing the software throughout the development stages. Anyone who helps in such a way will be credited. I want help all the way from 0.01 Alpha to 1.0 Final so that the chances of it being to people's liking is higher. I will use this forum for posting news on my progress if anyone is interested. The first few projects will be starter projects that intended as a way to get me experience with coding. After that any products I make will be available for public release. If you are interested in helping me out, please post a response and as soon as I have a testable wersion I will post a link to download it from.

if you make it with visual studio i can look at them cause im taking classes on visual basic and c++ if thats what you want to learn

Cool, thanks, those are the languages I am trying to learn. I am currenttly downloading a large tutorial for Visual Basic and next year I am studing C and C++ at university. In the mean time, my cousinj who is doing the same university course is helping me out.

Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated, even if it is just feedback.

EDIT: Would you also be able to look at the source for my software?

My first two applications will be a calculator and a text editor and will be meant as a means of testing my abilities. The third product will be a word processor, also meant to test my abilities, but may be released publically if good enough (as you see it).

I made a text Editor once

http://home.no.net/glergo/test/textedit.exe

well i was planning at only looking at the source. i dont really care about how the program works but more how the program is programmed. the first few things i did to learn were like games. try to make hangman if you know how to play that game cause its pretty fun to program. i also did duckhunt but thats kinda harder with just forms.

What language did you use to make it?

I ain't making any games. I'm not really interested in doing so. I intend to make applications only.

Hmm... Windows Forms Duckhunt could be kind of cool. Steal the sound effects, have a Label with Horrible ASCII art in the background, and have moving checkboxes as the ducks.

Checkboxes as ducks. What? Aha... weird...

I hear an idea churning...

What is this idea? Oh and people... after looking at Ubuntu Linux's calculator I have some good ideas for the calculator I will make that would see it have good features that are currently missing in most if not all Windows calculators.

Graphing ability?

Uhh. no not at first. Not sure how to do that with VisualBasic, which is the language I am starting with before working upto C and then C++. I am doing a scientific mode, a financial mode and a tax mode, however. Graphing mode is a planned feature for a version much in the future, however. Why do you want one with that feature?

I don't: my TI-89 works perfectly. I just guessed on a feature missing from "most if not all Windows calculators".

Oh. Well I would like to implement it one day even if I can't in the first version. After all, in New Zealand at least, graphic calculators are prohibatively expensive, though I don't know what price they are elsewhere. The finance and tax versions will even include support for several curriencies and exchange rates and the user would be able to change the tax rate to the applicable ammount for their country. It would be capable of doing sales tax (or GST as it is called in NZ and Australia) and income/business tax.

I use (and prefer) Microsoft Powertoy Calculator. It has graphing, and doesn't have buttons for all of the numbers and operations. Instead, you just type what you want it to do in a text box (like "5+6-3" or whatever).

Microsoft have actually released a calculator that, IMHO is better. Get it here: Microsoft Calculator Plus

I tried that 'Plus' version, and it left a stain on my monitor. Besides the annoying 'cool' default skin, it was just the regular ol' calculator with some more functions.

Powertoy Calculator 4 Life.

Personally I think they are both crappy, which is why I like to use my Casio fx-82MS.

EDIT: Which is why I am making my own calculator. i want to make one on par with and eventually better for pcs. I think I can eventually improve on the Ubuntu Linux calculator, which is better by far than either.

Bah to both off you. Just get mathematica.

mathematica? what do you mean by that?

If your solar powered calculator is a can of cola.

And your Ti-84 is like cheap pot.

Then Mathematica is ultra pure, top of the line cocaine.

The online integrator has saved my ass once or twice.

Yay for Mathematica!