Hi all,
As an aside to this thread.

I'd like to soon try my hand at some hired programming in preparation for my possible venture into the world of professional programming. What is the general consensus on RentACoder.com?

I would definitely not attempt to bite off more than I can chew and get myself off on the wrong foot, but I've seem some .NET listings that seem simple enough that I could even handle. "Get some HTML from a site, display it in a TextBox for some reason and then parse it and extract whatever we need and write that to a file." I can even do that.

I guess I'm just looking for general experiences on RentACoder and what the pros think of somebody like me cutting their teeth on a site like this.

Thanks for any replies.