AdamNThompson wrote:

5 years ago I taught myself how to programm by reading books and tutorials online.

Hey, Adam, I think that's great! You probably got yourself a book like Beginning C# and read through it starting at page 1. I do find it odd that people trying to learn something don't try this logical approach. Although, I must dissent with the forum on one topic: coming out of college, my peers and I appear to have the reverse of the problem described here. We have deep training in x86/MIPS assembly, C, Verilog, and Java SE languages. The problem most of my colleagues faced upon entering the workforce is that real work is done on top of a platform. Be it Java EE on WebSphere, .NET on IIS, Coldfusion on Tomcat, .NET Micro on ARM 9, or whatever. Imagine just knowing the Java SE 1.2 language: that doesn't make you a productive programmer. You need to know how to use the tools, designers, APIs, databases, and servers out there. Raw languages are just academic and don't help you solve your clients' business need. Am I making sense here?

modified on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 7:05 PM