For the first few years of my engineering career, I spent a lot of time writing Visual Basic based GUI applications for automated factory machines. These were the sort of VB applications that were very difficult to test, because for the most part the users consisted of moderately educated folks who had a hard time using a mouse, let alone clicking on the screen and entering information. Inevitably, no matter how much I tested these applications, one of these operators would do something that would bring the application crashing to its knees. Very quickly, I learned the value of reusing thoroughly tested Visual Basic code. Otherwise, if you start from scratch every time, you’re bound to make new mistakes all over again. In time, I learned to significantly speed up my own Visual Basic programming by working in a more modular format – utilizing components that I either wrote myself or downloaded off of reliable source code websites. I really started to appreciate those folks who spe…[...]

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