Today, we launched the Beginner Developer Learning Center (BDLC) – a centralized learning environment specifically targeted at beginning programmers.
Since we released the Microsoft Visual Studio Express Editions, we have had over 10 million downloads of the same. We have also grown one of the largest communities of recreational developers – our Coding4Fun site has over 150,000 visitors per month. This is a community that is near and dear to all of us – that first piece of code which actually compiled and ran (in my case using Fortran and punch cards on an IBM 360), the first application or web site we customized and made our own – that first step we took down the software development path.
Even with the release of our Express products and community sites, we wanted to decrease the barriers of entry to software development even more, and we have taken another in that direction today.
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