{"id":4903,"date":"2007-12-19T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/2007\/12\/19\/channel-9-interview-brian-beckman-does-higher-algebra-with-visual-basic-beth-massi\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T14:35:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T21:35:30","slug":"channel-9-interview-brian-beckman-does-higher-algebra-with-visual-basic-beth-massi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/channel-9-interview-brian-beckman-does-higher-algebra-with-visual-basic-beth-massi\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel 9 Interview: Brian Beckman Does Higher Algebra with Visual Basic (Beth Massi)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=367090\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Brian Beckman<\/p>\n<p>, Principal Developer (currently working with Erik Meijer), where he attempts to teach me higher algebra using Visual Basic, generics, and operator overloading. Brian is a wonderful person and brilliant physicist and we have a lot of fun with vectors and matrices and VB. I actually think I understood some of what Brian showed me ;). <\/p>\n<p>Visual Basic is a great language for mathematics as well as all kinds of other applications.&nbsp;Brian makes the point&nbsp;that he has fun coding in VB because of its intuitive style and how easy it is to be immediately productive.&nbsp;Check out <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbteam\/archive\/2007\/12\/19\/higher-algebra-with-operator-overloads-brian-beckman.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian&#8217;s blog post<\/a> on the VB Team blog! And for all you abstract algebra aficionados, <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/wrofeq.bay.livefilestore.com\/y1pi__YcVhyovwgv0CHgXJmFjt5Suuy1lOhmLkGupZ0OLPm-qg22wRIBXV_nF0ezBXytE8OmoLRBRJZImw6Wi0cbw\/LinearAlgebra.zip?download\">here&#8217;s the code to play with<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy,<br \/>&#8211;<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/bethmassi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beth Massi<\/a>, VS Community<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Brian Beckman , Principal Developer (currently working with Erik Meijer), where he attempts to teach me higher algebra using Visual Basic, generics, and operator overloading. Brian is a wonderful person and brilliant physicist and we have a lot of fun with vectors and matrices and VB. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":8818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,195],"tags":[40,164,165,166],"class_list":["post-4903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-team-member-interviews","category-visual-basic","tag-beth-massi","tag-vb_express","tag-vb2005","tag-vb2008"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Brian Beckman , Principal Developer (currently working with Erik Meijer), where he attempts to teach me higher algebra using Visual Basic, generics, and operator overloading. Brian is a wonderful person and brilliant physicist and we have a lot of fun with vectors and matrices and VB. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}