Help Direct a C# beginner make a descision.
I am totally new to asp.net and C#, and only have a little experience with VB, XML, SQL, PHP and others.
Where would you reccomend to learn (properly) C#/ASP.NET and would you guys reccomend setting up my own server at home or get a hosting package? BTW- did I mention I am starting out with practically no budget, so cost is a big factor... :) I'm broke.
Where would you reccomend to learn (properly) C#/ASP.NET and would you guys reccomend setting up my own server at home or get a hosting package? BTW- did I mention I am starting out with practically no budget, so cost is a big factor... :) I'm broke.
you dont need a hosting server to learn c# and asp.net
just need visual studio and a normal PC machine to learn
as far as books are concerned you might like to start with beginning series from wrox for c# and asp.net
just need visual studio and a normal PC machine to learn
as far as books are concerned you might like to start with beginning series from wrox for c# and asp.net
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Thank You for your responses so far, the reason I would like to go to asp.net and c# is that it is going to be the new platform at my job and I want to focus on learning it and not multiple languages at once (if humanly possible even though I already am using like 4-5), possibly switch my web sites I already host php/mysql/apache to it as well. I ask about windows hosting because I want to also stick to one platform which I have used windows forever, so I don't want to try to learn unix and things I am totally unfamiliar with. Nevermind about the hosting part I added, later on down the road I might look into that. I like some new techmolgies like Linq and Ajax and I have Visual Studio 2008 coming to me for free soon which has a lot of ajax integration and MS sql as well.
that will sort out the development environment part, now you just want to look out for the reading resources
buy a couple of books and rest is all hands on experience and when you face any difficulty then we are always here to help
cheers and best of luck
buy a couple of books and rest is all hands on experience and when you face any difficulty then we are always here to help
cheers and best of luck
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Sorry I should have refrased it I meant I know I can learn it outside of hosting my own site, but I think it will help me learn it better when it comes to applying it to a live web server on the internet. I meant to ask if anyone knew any good windows hosts that aren't a major rip-off or totally suck :) or if it is easy to do my own server at home? Those links are all great though.
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These answers will help me start out, thank you all. Any other suggestions are still welcome of course but I am closing this discussion now.
Apache, PHP, MySQL, Python, Java etc. rather than IIS, ASP, MS SQL, VB, C# etc.