October 22, 2010 at 5:22 pm
I do a lot of sql. i can see a use for me learning some ASP.NET and C sharp. but what im stumped is how do some people learn asp, .NET, Pearl, Python, Ruby, PHP etc??
I mean, i know guys who know many of the above languages. were they working one day in pearl and decided to learn .NET, or were they writing peral scripts and decided to learn php? these arnt guys who have been around years, these are guys just out of college.
I cant learn something if its not immediately useful to me. I can see how, after a long time, its good to know all these platforms, but i cant see how they do it, what their reasoning was.
any of you guys here one of those guys?
October 22, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Not one of those guys .. that is straight out of college, but have been around long enough to know, that if you are not learning new technologies, you are not standing still. You are sliding BACKWARDS.
Take my word for it, lean dot Net, JAVA script, etc., or fall back and in a few years be replaced by next group of college grads.
I started programming back in 1958 on the IBM 709, learned fortran 1 on the first computer leased by IBM, later released as the model 7090. If you do not know what I am talking about look it up on the web, Computer Museum of History (or some such title). And I am still learning. IF you want to know how old I am, well one MVP on SSC refers to me as 3 days older than dirt, and he is pretty much right.
Think of it this way, your stuck on a beach, the tide is coming in, you darn well better learn to swim or your gonna drown.
How do you learn, get your own desktop/laptop, what ever, purchase the Developer edition of SQL Server ($50.00 US), download the free versions of dot Net, etc. Then check Microsoft they have free video training courses available.
For dot net learing vids at a reasonable cost:
Use http://www.learnvisualstudio.net/
Practice at home, and then take you new learned stuff with you to work, you will find a place to use it.
October 23, 2010 at 3:30 am
bitbucket-25253 (10/22/2010)
Not one of those guys .. that is straight out of college, but have been around long enough to know, that if you are not learning new technologies, you are not standing still. You are sliding BACKWARDS.
Yup.
That's why I have, on my 'to-learn' list
* WPF (in progress)
* WCF
* Linq/Entity Framework
* Ruby
* Biztalk
* F#
Not getting through the list fast (mostly because my recent focus has been AI), but it's there.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability
October 26, 2010 at 1:08 pm
Very much agreed with the other's sentiments.
I'm working on a project where I've had to learn ASP.NET MVC -- and there's a reason why I haven't complained.
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