Talk to me about C#
17 January 2008, 01:14 PM
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Talk to me about C#
I'm from a programming background, primarily RDBMS (Ingres) and 4GLs.
Just wandered...
- what C# is like to pickup?
- how easy to learn?
- why use C#?
- good skill?
Just wandered...
- what C# is like to pickup?
- how easy to learn?
- why use C#?
- good skill?
17 January 2008, 01:40 PM
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Pretty straightforward. Very much like Java.
If you can code in an OO language, you'll find it easy.
Very flexible and powerful language that is rapidly being adopted all over the place (just for windows platforms obviously).
Yep
- how easy to learn?
- why use C#?
- good skill?
Yep
17 January 2008, 02:27 PM
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As said, easy to pick up if you're familiar with OO languages. Visual Studio code completion helps a lot when you're not familiar with all of the libraries.
(And even when you are!)
Very versatile. For example if you come from a RDBMS background you can write stored procedures and UDFs in C# and compile them into a DLL that executes within the SQL Server 2005. Can be a good solution in certain scenarios.
(And even when you are!)
Very versatile. For example if you come from a RDBMS background you can write stored procedures and UDFs in C# and compile them into a DLL that executes within the SQL Server 2005. Can be a good solution in certain scenarios.
18 January 2008, 01:21 PM
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18 January 2008, 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by pimmo2000
I hated it.. I did it in Uni and OMG its the worst thing in the world ever !! No point to it at all !
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18 January 2008, 04:12 PM
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Ditto all but pimmo2000. I hope you are not confusing C# with C.
C# is a powerful programming language.
Lots of resources on the web.
Just be ready to keep learning new stuff every week, with Microsoft's technology, it's hard to keep up.
C# is a powerful programming language.
Lots of resources on the web.
Just be ready to keep learning new stuff every week, with Microsoft's technology, it's hard to keep up.
18 January 2008, 04:15 PM
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Normal old C is a very useful tool to have in your armoury as well though, so that comment from Pimmo still sounds a tad ill informed 
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Not just Windoze, mono works on linux and has support for asp.net and a subset of Windows.Forms certainly for 1.1 and it works (in a fashion) on OS X also. Can also get monodevelop and the c# complier working.
18 January 2008, 07:26 PM
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Yes and of course what you learn in Uni really prepares you for the real world doesn't it? Those who can do, those who can't teach, thats the old cliche isn't which fits quite nicely for academia? Taught by those who can't who read it out of a textbook and were taught by those that can't etc etc.
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