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Ideally you would *want* to make *something*, that would be your passion and the language and tools to do it would all be incidental and learned along the way to making something you really like and believe in. Personally I find it really easy to learn stuff when it is in aid of whatever I'm actually interested in accomplishing.

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AspDotNetDev

C#. That will allow you to make use of the .Net Framework and Silverlight. That will allow you to be very productive and will allow you to target a wide user base. Of course, that's simplifying things a bit. But by going the C# route you can't go wrong. Well, you can... and probably will... but no more wrong than any other route. ;P

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Luc Pattyn

what articles have you been reading here on CodeProject? That should tell you what you are interested in, if you don't know already. :)

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ozgunique wrote:

iPhone programming

C++ and QT Creator or Objective-C

ozgunique wrote:

Silverlight, .Net

C#

ozgunique wrote:

etc.

Java :-D

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In my experience you will do far better if you have problem and are looking for a solution than if you have a solution looking for a problem, unless it's a purely academic exercise. If it's academic, then study and learn whatever you want. If it supposed to be practical, figure out what problem you want to solve, then learn whatever it takes to solve it.

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Pete OHanlon

What's your passion? What would you do for free if you could? What topics get you excited? Bear in mind that technology trends tend to be irrelevant when you're learning; they come and go far too quickly to be relevant when you're new to the game. Don't limit yourself to computing. One of the things you'll find among most of the denizens of the Lounge is that they have wide ranging interests, and it's a thirst for knowledge that separates the jobbing developer from the good developer.

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wizardzz

I'm going to make some assumptions based on what you have written. Since you are even mentioning iPhone programming, and mentioning Silverlight, and the fact that your end goal would be to create a start-up, but do freelance initially; is it safe to assume you would like to learn mobile development? Since development for iPhone is objective c and most others are not, it would mean making a decision to go the iPhone route vs. Windows/Droid/ETC route from the beginning. If you have an idea of the product you would like, it would probably be a good idea to do a cost / benefits analysis of going with iPhone development or not. Look at job postings, look at salaries, look at market share, consider who uses which mobile device (corporate professionals vs trend followers, etc). If my assumption regarding your pursuit of mobile development is wrong, you can ignore my entire post.

Marc Clifton

Learn an instrument. The language of music is purest. :) Marc

Pete OHanlon

Not when I play it. I like it distorted.

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CaptainSeeSharp

x86 assembler.

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Pete OHanlon

That's kind of evil. I like it, but it's evil. :-D

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CaptainSeeSharp

He said he wanted to learn something from the ground up. Can't get anymore low-level than assembler.

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RaviBee

John C wrote:

Ideally you would *want* to make *something*, that would be your passion and the language and tools to do it would all be incidental and learned along the way to making something you really like and believe in.

Well said. :thumbsup: I don't know anyone who decided to become a software engineer because they "hoped it would pay well." /ravi

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Pete OHanlon

100100101010101... How's that for a bit more low level.

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Marc Clifton

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

Not when I play it. I like it distorted.

Those are just, ummm, harmonics! :) Marc

CaptainSeeSharp

Not good enough. You have manipulate the CPU with a AA battery and some wires on the leads of the CPU. Use a volt meter to check the results.

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Luc Pattyn

Marc Clifton wrote:

The language of music

would that be C# or F#? :)

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Pete OHanlon

You win.

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fjdiewornncalwe

Sorry. Too many bits for my liking...

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Nish Nishant

Gracious as ever, huh Pete? Take a 5 just for that :-)

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