Can anyone or anything teach me ASP.NET MVC in 15 days?

OriginalGriff

It's about the only way you can be sure to get a team of five fully up to speed with a "new technology" in two weeks. It's way too late to organise a course; there are books and tutorials called "learn MVC in 15 days" (generally with numerous exclamation marks in the title) but my experience with such books in other fields are that you can get the basics, but nowhere near enough to be fully competent. Heck, at the end of one you don't generally even have a clue what you don't know - which is worse than not knowing what you should know (if you see what I mean). Good luck - but I think it is an unrealistic aim, and you are going to get burnt badly on this one!

devvvy

Go Agile, it will help solve any problem you may have, lack of time, insufficient funding, or support from The Client (Please dont forget to "Stand up" in the meetings)

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David C Hobbyist

Good luck! Pluralsight[^] could get a start on the learning curve. There are tutorials on asp.net[^]. Wow tough task. Hope You get up to speed.

David

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William Emmanual wrote:

I have been asked to upgrade my entire team to "MVC ready" in 15 days!

Go back to the person who made this request and explain why that is not realistic.

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William Emmanual

Thanks I'll try - 10 days of free training seems good, will try to get some funding for the full package. Also as someone suggested Agile sounds good, will attempt to convince my team about that too.

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Gary R Wheeler

Boy, have you drunk the Kool-Aid™.

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Mike Hankey

Ok I'll start MVC means "Move Very Cautiously" that's all I got.

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David C Hobbyist

William Emmanual wrote:

Also as someone suggested Agile sounds good

I could be wrong, but I think he was joking. Again good luck.

David

Tarek Elqusi

I don't think this is achievable unless they had had strong training before !

Rutvik Dave

Do a quick meeting with your team, see if everyone is willing to learn the new concept. Once everyone agrees, I am sure your team could learn the concept of MVC in few days, and after that they should work on a very small project using MVC (it is very important, not just jump in after only reading and watching stuff, you need to try it out). And after 15 Days, check where everyone stands and then, you all can just jump in with the new Project that your Client/Boss wants with extra days of buffer in the timeline. It is lot of work, but it's possible. And if you think that after 15 days of trying, the whole thing is not working, just say 'no' with facts and reasons. People respect when you say 'no' with proper justification. IMHO: for learning, read a book. It's OK if you don't read the whole book and only first few chapters. But before you start watching videos, you should read a book. You should learn the basic concepts thoroughly and only a book can teach you in a detail. Good luck. :)

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Tarek Elqusi

good advice, thx for posting

0bx

I jumped in my first MVC 4 project without any special preparations. My colleague was already a bit familiar with the framework and he started to work on the project alone, but due to circumstances he couldn't make the deadline so I was called in to help out where I could and finish. He explained the basics and I also found some tutorials online. Both of us made some mistakes, most common mistake was not following naming conventions (which is btw really important if you want to take full advantage of the framework). At the end it turned out okay. It wasn't a frustrating first experience and it didn't take long before it felt right. Also, to jump in an application that was already partly finished helped a lot because you have some examples from which you can build on.

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Super Lloyd

Do the tutorials[^], they are quite good! Worked for me! ;) Ho yeah, and follow by making a simple sample web site!

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Roger Wright

Immediately order this[^] and this[^]; apply both concurrently. Once your team has finished both, all will be "MVC ready" enough to find a job working for a rational boss.

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Rutvik Dave

:laugh:

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Rutvik Dave

William Emmanual wrote:

Also as someone suggested Agile

Since you are new here, that was a joke. Many people here often joke about stuff without using joke icon / smiley, it's their lame effort to attempt a dry british humor, which confuses rest of the 'normal' people. :-D

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Ravi Bhavnani

I second PluralSight and the tutorials at asp.net (Microsoft's ASP .NET portal). However, you may want to consider face-to-face instructor led training for your team. See Learning Tree[^], for example. /ravi

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Kevin McFarlane

Rutvik Dave wrote:

for learning, read a book. It's OK if you don't read the whole book and only first few chapters. But before you start watching videos, you should read a book. You should learn the basic concepts thoroughly and only a book can teach you in a detail.

I find the combination of reading and watching to be better than either alone. I somehow seem to pick up different things from videos than I do from reading (and vice-versa).

Kevin

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William Emmanual wrote:

I have been asked to upgrade my entire team to "MVC ready" in 15 days!

What is the rationale for doing so? I started looking at MVC5 about a week or 2 ago and have been 'experimenting' with it on and off and it doesn't appear too difficult: it's just making the transition to a new way of doing things that takes a little time. I'm sure that as I get deeper into a 'proper' application I will be googling and cping quite a bit!

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