he could start building apps for people for a small fee. nothing big just something that gets the job done for them. he'll learn along the way too. _________________________________________________ "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." Albert Einstein ..::: BNEM :::..

I've already gotten my BS in Computer Information Systems. I have a full-time developer job and my company is willing to pay for more training if it will help me do my job better. My main development environment is Visual Studio 2003, 2005 and I mostly develop in C# .NET. I have been as this job for more than a year so I don't have years of experience. What kind of training will prove to be worthwhile? I've read a lot that certifications are becoming less and less important to companies. Are developer conferences good to attend? I've never been to one. Does any one have any other suggestions?

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That was never implied. I just simply didn't find it to be helpful. Remarkable, yes.

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Yes I am doing what I want to be doing, I just want to get better at it.

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Well I am thinking about a Master's degree in either Information Security or Computer Science. But Information Security won't help me do my job better. My company will pay for more training, not necessarily another degree. I want to make sure that the training I do get is complimentary and practical for what I am doing now.

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Good one. Not helpful, but good.

I've already gotten my BS in Computer Information Systems. I have a full-time developer job and my company is willing to pay for more training if it will help me do my job better. My main development environment is Visual Studio 2003, 2005 and I mostly develop in C# .NET. I have been as this job for more than a year so I don't have years of experience. What kind of training will prove to be worthwhile? I've read a lot that certifications are becoming less and less important to companies. Are developer conferences good to attend? I've never been to one. Does any one have any other suggestions?

I'd say teach him anything object oriented and try to use visual drawings to represent classes and objects. I agree with the people who said instant gratification is the key. I've found myself in many a situation where i'm trying to learn something and i've become quickly disinterested becuase i wasn't getting anywhere with it. I started off with c++ but didn't really get it. Then i started learning java and programming started to to make a little more sense to me and i understood why hello world was showing up on my screen by didn't understand how it was drawn yet. then i went to visual basic and started understanding logic better. I did a little web development project in PHP and really got a good understanding of logic. I finally graduated college, had to learn C# at my first job and now i can teach programming if i wanted to. I think that for anyone, if they're interested enough, as long as the understand programming logic they can easily learn any language. another suggestion is the use pseudocode techniques too help understand the logic that's going on. One learning tool i've used was a tool that let me drag objects on a screen and connect them to create a flow of logic. i think that was the biggest "boulder" to help knock the barrier between me and programming. it's called Visual Logic - http://www.visuallogic.org/[^]. I think you should definitely try this tool.