Java, C# or .NET?

He’s already MCP? Well, if he’s programming mainly for Windows platform, then there’s C#/.Net. Otherwise, there’s Java.

Phoenix One… I wanted to take a short term course there too. Now when will that be?…

PHP, or whatever, just read the online tutorials, buy a book, its the same thing, NIIT isnt all that, save the money, you’ll learn more and waste less time, need to ask a question? hundreds of thousands of online chat rooms and helpgroups for these programming languages.

Java doesn’t tie you to the Windows platform either. .NET can also run on Unix machines through the Mono Project. And you can code Windows in C++ – Visual C++ – though that’s only done by lower-level programmers nowadays.

best things to learn: Object Orientated PHP, SQL, Ruby and Perl :)

#8, C# is not an MS-only PL (ECMA-334 C# Language Specification and ISO/IEC 23270).

“The ECMA C# specification details a minimum set of types and class libraries that the compiler expects to have available and they define the basics required.”

The .Net Framework is just one of these ‘class libraries’. Other independent implementations of these class libraries include,
– Mono, Novell’s open source .NET implementation
– dotGNU, and Portable.NET from the Free Software Foundation

(Well of course, there are politics behind C# because of its ties)

#7, OOP PHP is jocularly touted as Java 2. I wrote an entry about that when I found a link through RebelPixel about PHP which shouldn’t be Java

#6, Gravatar seems familiar, I think I know… :D

Well, you can start with MSDN. I learned the basics of C# in a few minutes (not the framework, the language itself) simply because I have a background in C and C++. The .Net framework itself is another thing to learn (but it is not the hard if you got a reference at hand).

Career shift to IT needs a lot of thinking. IT by itself is a broad industry. If you are planning to take programming courses, at least, you must have a strong foundation on programming models and algorithms. Having a strong programming foundation skills will help you a lot when learning advance programming languages such as Java or .NET.

Programming is also divided into 2 parts, the desktop application/form base programming or web applications. Nowadays, IT professionals are shifting to web applications since is faster in terms of database queries, transactions, etc.. compared to the traditional ODBC technologies. The web application itself is striving hard in order to give end users and Rich media web application, that can be matched for the traditional desktop applications. Ajax technology is a platform for creating Rich Interactive media applications. Every technology and platform such as .NET or PHP or JSP have their own AJAX framework. The Ajax framework then can be applied on your web applications. Adobe Macromedia also introduced last year the FLEX data services and RIA application framework. Flex is based on Eclipse. Flex generates a front end web application which gives users a dynamic Rich Interactive Application. The bottleneck for Flex is its still not fully supported and is really expensive when deploying the web applications.

For those who don’t know what they are commenting, please be responsible with your comments. I’m using C# .net for MS OS deployment and then Mono if other OS. current salary for asp.net C# (30k – 150k)

Hi! I’m a developer inclined in Java and .Net technologies. In my work, as a professional Java developer, I use (of course) Java technologies to build enterprise web applications. But personally speaking, I use C# to develop desktop application for Windows platform and C++ for others. Java was not meant for desktop applications, but C# is. By the way, I was also trained in Phoenix One. I took up Java. But before that I’m already a freelance programmer since year 2001, developing desktop, database, and embedded systems applications using VB6, C, C++. :D

i think java is the best!…

You recommended Ajax? But it’s not a language, it’s a method of using the XMLHttpRequest object.