The next programming language to learn for a .NET developer ?
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I am in to C#, VB.NET, VBA for now. Wondering what could be the best bet to learn from a MS developer standpoint ? Cheers.
Mani
In fact the possibilities of C#, VB.Net and C++.Net (known as Visual C++ too) are equal for a MS developer. But: If you learn VisualC++ you are able switch later to "normal" C++, improve your knowledge and do e.g. hardware-near programming. IMO VisualC++ improves your value as a developer more than the other languages and if you are able to do VisualC++ programming is writing C# code not a big deal because there are only a few differences. VBA is just important for basic Macro programming within MS Office so some basic knowledge there wouldn't be too bad.
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Hahaha good one :):thumbsup: I am seriously considering to start learning Japanese :) But probably i should first learn English .
Argonia wrote:
But probably i should first learn English
I was able to understand what you said. So your english can't be too bad :laugh:
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I am in to C#, VB.NET, VBA for now. Wondering what could be the best bet to learn from a MS developer standpoint ? Cheers.
Mani
I am surprised no one mentioned F# yet ? :(
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I am in to C#, VB.NET, VBA for now. Wondering what could be the best bet to learn from a MS developer standpoint ? Cheers.
Mani
Also, wondering why so many +1's for C++. Do we intend to see a lot of ooportunities in the next years with C++ ? I am humbly surprised !
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I am surprised no one mentioned F# yet ? :(
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I am in to C#, VB.NET, VBA for now. Wondering what could be the best bet to learn from a MS developer standpoint ? Cheers.
Mani
Have you tried Brainfuck[^] or INTERCAL[^]?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Chinese. No, seriously. Look at the way they are gobbling up every other market...
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
What a mindf**k that'll be. Can you imagine India outsourcing its jobs to China?
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68). "I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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I am surprised no one mentioned F# yet ? :(
Seems like a good place to start: http://preview.tryfsharp.org/[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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Have you tried Brainfuck[^] or INTERCAL[^]?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
Don't forget Malbolge[^] and Whitespace[^]. ;P
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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I am in to C#, VB.NET, VBA for now. Wondering what could be the best bet to learn from a MS developer standpoint ? Cheers.
Mani
ASP.NET MVC 4 (+JavaScript, jQuery, CSS). Or maybe that newfangled Windows Runtime stuff (especially XAML).
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I am in to C#, VB.NET, VBA for now. Wondering what could be the best bet to learn from a MS developer standpoint ? Cheers.
Mani
Does learning yet another way to use .NET really get you anywhere? Maybe learning a new framework (or, dare I say, platform?) would be more beneficial. Expanding horizons and all. It wouldn't hurt to be less career dependent on the future of .NET. But regardless of that, you're likely to encounter some ideas and practices that improve your .NET programming. Barring that, TypeScript looks promising and is a good gateway to what the rest of the world is doing on the web.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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I am in to C#, VB.NET, VBA for now. Wondering what could be the best bet to learn from a MS developer standpoint ? Cheers.
Mani
If you have a good foundation in a number of languages and paradigms (I can't believe I wrote that) then you will be well-prepared for whatever they throw at you. All general-purpose programming languages do essentially the same things, just differently. Viva la difference!
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Does learning yet another way to use .NET really get you anywhere? Maybe learning a new framework (or, dare I say, platform?) would be more beneficial. Expanding horizons and all. It wouldn't hurt to be less career dependent on the future of .NET. But regardless of that, you're likely to encounter some ideas and practices that improve your .NET programming. Barring that, TypeScript looks promising and is a good gateway to what the rest of the world is doing on the web.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
Yep, methinks so too. You're better off being able to jump to anything else than simply learn a new interface into DotNet. From past experience, MS's libraries don't last for much more than 10 years - if they're used a lot, unlike stuff such as SilverLight :laugh: So the much more pertinent question is: What new set of libs should you be on the lookout for. And then you can relax and learn some weird programming concepts (try the strangest language you can find - by all means) to make you a better programmer instead of someone who knows how to look into DotNet from a different angle :zzz: . I'd recommend Lisp & C to start off with. Those 2 would probably give you a grounding for absolutely all possible concepts yet devised in the entire programming field. Thereafter learn languages for fun. Try to make something for another system (e.g. Linux / Mac / Android / etc. etc. etc.) Try to make same portable - to work on any system with only a re-compile at worst! Once you can do all that, you've literally covered all your bases, no way you will get a curve-ball in the head :wtf:
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I am in to C#, VB.NET, VBA for now. Wondering what could be the best bet to learn from a MS developer standpoint ? Cheers.
Mani
C++ and JavaScript are going to take over the world Also, give Go (http://golang.org[^]) a try. There's also a move to functional programming so give Haskell or F# a try And don't forget Python, it's the glue holding everything together. Oh, and if you want to do data analysis then also check out R (http://www.r-project.org/[^])
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines
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Don't forget Malbolge[^] and Whitespace[^]. ;P
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
How about LOLCODE[^] It even has a .NET compiler: http://code.google.com/p/lolcode-dot-net/[^]
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke! My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.
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I am in to C#, VB.NET, VBA for now. Wondering what could be the best bet to learn from a MS developer standpoint ? Cheers.
Mani
It depends if you want to build on your existing experience, or if you want to learn something completely different. Personally, I chose to step into the Ruby on Rails world. It's like emigrating to China (or Japan): different language, but also different habits, conventions, norms, values and brand names ("Capistrano" sounds like a coffee brand). It's hard at first, but fun as well. There's a good free course CS169. Search Youtube as well.
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Yep, methinks so too. You're better off being able to jump to anything else than simply learn a new interface into DotNet. From past experience, MS's libraries don't last for much more than 10 years - if they're used a lot, unlike stuff such as SilverLight :laugh: So the much more pertinent question is: What new set of libs should you be on the lookout for. And then you can relax and learn some weird programming concepts (try the strangest language you can find - by all means) to make you a better programmer instead of someone who knows how to look into DotNet from a different angle :zzz: . I'd recommend Lisp & C to start off with. Those 2 would probably give you a grounding for absolutely all possible concepts yet devised in the entire programming field. Thereafter learn languages for fun. Try to make something for another system (e.g. Linux / Mac / Android / etc. etc. etc.) Try to make same portable - to work on any system with only a re-compile at worst! Once you can do all that, you've literally covered all your bases, no way you will get a curve-ball in the head :wtf:
To really force yourself to learn functional programming properly, its hard to beat Haskell, as its purity prevents you slipping back into procedural approaches too easily.
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I am in to C#, VB.NET, VBA for now. Wondering what could be the best bet to learn from a MS developer standpoint ? Cheers.
Mani
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What a mindf**k that'll be. Can you imagine India outsourcing its jobs to China?
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68). "I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
No kidding... India is already outsourcing to Mexico.
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Argonia wrote:
But probably i should first learn English
I was able to understand what you said. So your english can't be too bad :laugh:
He's probably just using Google translate ;-)
