Microsoft YCMD Software Giveaway!

[xanatoes]

Hey, Microsoft is sponsoring their 2005 annual contest, “You Can Make a Difference” and is giving out Visual Studio .NET for FREE to anyone who applies!! Also, 10 winners will receive a $2500 scholarship, $1500 production budget and $1000 in technology for their school. All you have to do is create a software project that would help out a local charity, such as Lions Club, Red Cross. Etc.

Here’s a link with more info:
http://www.buzztone.com/ycmd/track.asp?ori=72&sel=txtlink


http://www.thespoke.net/_img/navigation/ycmd_logo.jpg

[sage45]

While informative this should really be posted in the Geek News and Humour section... Moving this post there...

-sage-

[Crake]

ok cool i never tried visual studio is it good??


is c++ hard to learn?

[JamieR]

Bugger..I would have been dead interested in doing that, but the application deadline was 30th April :mad:

[evo]

Visual Studio uses VC++, not C++. Quite a difference in the two, VC++ being significantly easier to master.

[JamieR]

I've never really looked into the difference between bog standard C++ and Visual C++. I believe that Visual C++ is Microsoft's incarnation of the C programming language, but I don't know :o

[evo]

C++, C, Delphi, Pascal are highend languages, advanced rather. Microsoft's "incarnation" as Weazel puts it, is a basic language. It is quite powerful in its way but not as versatile as the former.