I was recently messing with visual basic.net. I really like its syntax, it's an easy way to talk about code, and I've also been able to pick it up quickly despite never actually being super into coding. I coded for a number of years for BT Projects, but at the end of the day I didn't want to write code in C# anymore other than just for entertainment or for things between me and friends, once I discovered other things I could put out there that didn't require so much coding.
But, as it happened, this year a friend was showing me Visual Basic.net, and I recalled I tried to do some stuff with it back several years ago, so I figured why not try it again? And so far, it's actually gotten me back into coding. But I hit one particularly annoying barrier.
This isn't for the reason you may think. It's actually not that I'm afraid people are going to judge the quality of the code. I've actually ran into two instances where I was having an issue with my code. While it built, and would run, albeit not the way I wanted, my antivirus program blocked it literally just because it thinks my application is going to download other applications. For reference, all this application was supposed to do, was allow you to page through a text file, hitting enter to advance the view by several lines, and then to eventually be able to hit the arrow keys to move forward or backward more precisely. So the trouble begins.
I don't have any idea what to do to work around it, other than to fix my code. Maybe the premice is that if I'm going to code, I just need to either turn off the anti-virus, or put the code into an excluded folder. I've heard from some that this can be an issue sometimes, but I don't know how widespread it is. Is this a common situation? It's almost as if anti-virus programs aren't geared toward techy audiences.
Anyway, that's it for this second blog post. I don't have much else to say on this one, but I wanted to put this out there.