Winter Scripting Games: Profiles in Perfection
Fábio de Paula
As part of the 2008 Winter Scripting Games the Script Center is profiling competitors who recorded a perfect score in the 2007 Scripting Games. Here, in his own words, is a little something about Fábio de Paula, who received a perfect score in the VBScript Advanced division.
Check out more Profiles in Perfection from the 2007 Scripting Games.
Fábio de Paula
I started to use computers when I took a BASIC course for CP500 computers in 1992 in Guaçuí city in Espirito Santo state. Later in 1999 I learned to program in Visual Basic 5, then began to work professionally as a programmer.
Hoping to become an even better programmer, I began to study network infrastructure and I decided to make this my career. In 2003 I succeeded in passing the 70-210 exam, earning an MCP certification. In 2004, I earned an MCSE certification.
My background as a programmer was really worth it, because the syntax of VBScript is very similar to that of Visual Basic. I have been using VBScript to install software in several computers; to manage Active Directory; to collect information about computers (via WMI); in logon scripts; and so on.
Presently I am attending the 4th period of an undergraduate course in Systems Computing through CEDERJ/UFF. Since 2004 I have been employed by NEXA Tecnologia em Rede de Computadores, where I work as a Support Analyst. My work largely takes place at Veracel Celulose (a pulp plant in Eunapolis city in Bahia state), where I devoted my time to Windows servers, virtual machines, AD, SQL Server and scripting.
Tips
| • | Copy scripts, but understand what you are copying. I see people just copying scripts from the Internet without understanding how the code works. |
| • | Use the forums, both to ask and to answer questions. |
| • | Keep the help files around; my favorite ones are the documentation for Windows Script 5.6 and The Portable Script Center. |
