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| From | Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: programming...? |
| Date | 2018-02-20 19:37 +0000 |
| Organization | albasani.net |
| Message-ID | <p6htdu$627$1@news.albasani.net> (permalink) |
| References | <d1a5e693-6aaa-4cbb-b243-149070f93769@googlegroups.com> |
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 07:38:50 -0800, Eric Douglas wrote: > This forum has been a good resource for Java specific technical > questions. Does anyone here know a good resource for more general > questions? > such as > > What does a help wanted ad mean when they ask for .Net developers? Is > there a language just called .Net, or once you know one you know them > all? Do I need to learn VB.Net? C#? ASP.Net? All of the above? > Only needed if you think you're likely to be working in a Microsoft shop, in which case you probably also need to know Powershell and the Visual Studio IDE. > I have some 18 years experience in a BASIC language, probably 10 years > in Java, and a bit here and there in other languages (started with > COBOL/JCL, SQL/SQR, VBscript). What do I learn next? PHP? Python? > .Net? > ANSI C is useful. I'd suggest learning it from "The C Programing Language" by Kernighan and Richie, 2nd edition because thats about the best written and most enjoyable book about a programming language I've seen. Another useful book is "The Practise of Programming by Kernighan and Pike. This is about writing readable programs that are easy to maintain and debug and, although targeted on C and its derivatives, the advise and guidance it contains is applicable to other programming languages too. You probably don't need it except as a refresher, but anybody who's just learned their first block structured language should read it: it *will* improve their programming style. > How much tools should I know? Git? Ant? Maven? Gradle? > If you don't already know them, you should learn and get familiar with using a program build tool (ant and make) and a version control system, (CVS, or git) and, again, get used to using them. Running complex multi-module C compilations without using make is much more painful than it should be. Same for ant and Java. With both of these groups of tools, its easy to pick up a new tool once you're familiar with one of them because they all do much the same job in much the same way. If you end up running a development team its useful to know at least one bug tracking tool, e.g. Bugzilla. > Is it important to know Spring or some such framework or would they > expect one to learn that on the job? > I suppose that much the same advice applies to the various IDEs and frameworks - if you know one you're likely to find the same general principles apply to another. > How much web do I need to know? HTML5? CSS? jQuery? REST? SOAP? JSON? > Writing HTML is useful as a basic skill. I like Elisabeth Castro's books: well written, can be used to learn from scratch and work well as a reference later on. I think the other things you mention can be picked up as you need them. Same goes for PHP: I needed to write a couple of small programs (I use one to inspect quarantined e-mail spam and the other dynamically generates thumbnail photo catalogues from my photo collection and displays them on my in-house web server), so I bought the O'Reilly book, read it, and wrote the programs I needed. One set of skills that IS likely to be useful is to know how to design, build, tune and manage relational databases: SQL, interactive SQL query tools and how JDBC and ODBC drivers work and can be used to write programs that will work with more than one DBMS. I think its also useful to understand database design and tuning, which means the basics of data analysis, how to normalise a data model and how to tune a database and/or SQL queries to optimise its performance. Its amazing how many designers and analysts produce bad data models and haven't a clue about improving their initial, often bad, performance. -- Martin | martin at Gregorie | gregorie dot org
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programming...? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-02-20 07:38 -0800
Re: programming...? Jon <jon101011@yahoo.com> - 2018-02-20 17:07 +0100
Re: programming...? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-02-20 08:19 -0800
Re: programming...? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-02-20 11:45 -0500
Re: programming...? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-02-20 12:39 -0800
Re: programming...? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-02-20 13:25 -0800
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Re: programming...? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-02-20 19:24 -0500
Re: programming...? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-02-20 19:21 -0500
Re: programming...? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-02-20 11:41 -0500
Re: programming...? Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-02-20 19:37 +0000
Re: programming...? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-02-20 12:10 -0800
Re: programming...? Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-02-20 22:00 +0000
Re: programming...? Robert Spanjaard <spamtrap@arumes.com> - 2018-02-20 21:09 +0100
Re: programming...? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-02-20 12:16 -0800
Re: programming...? Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-02-20 22:09 +0000
Re: programming...? Robert Spanjaard <spamtrap@arumes.com> - 2018-02-21 01:16 +0100
Re: programming...? Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-02-21 00:47 +0000
Re: programming...? Robert Spanjaard <spamtrap@arumes.com> - 2018-02-21 12:29 +0100
Re: programming...? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-02-21 10:42 -0500
Re: programming...? Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-02-21 15:44 +0000
Re: programming...? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-02-21 11:03 -0500
Re: programming...? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-02-21 08:38 -0800
Re: programming...? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-02-21 11:54 -0500
Re: programming...? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-02-21 10:40 -0800
Re: programming...? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-02-21 14:35 -0500
Re: programming...? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-02-21 11:48 -0800
Re: programming...? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-02-21 08:29 -0800
Re: programming...? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-02-21 11:47 -0500
Re: programming...? Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-02-21 17:35 +0000
Re: programming...? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-02-21 12:47 -0500
Re: programming...? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-02-21 10:45 -0800
Re: programming...? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-02-21 14:40 -0500
Re: programming...? Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-02-21 21:23 +0000
Re: programming...? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-02-21 21:39 -0500
Re: programming...? Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-02-22 09:06 +0000
Re: programming...? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-02-24 20:29 -0500
Re: programming...? Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-02-25 02:12 +0000
Re: programming...? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-02-26 08:19 -0800
Re: programming...? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-03-01 13:17 -0500
Re: programming...? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-02-21 10:43 -0800
Re: programming...? Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-02-21 21:14 +0000
Re: programming...? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-02-21 21:35 -0500
Re: programming...? Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-02-22 09:10 +0000
Re: programming...? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-02-22 06:23 -0800
Re: programming...? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-02-22 19:32 -0500
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