The Complete ASP.NET MVC 5 Course

No ... no one is too old. I'm 25 and just hit mid level software developer, but someone triple my age has joined with me at the same level and me and him have a right laugh together on projects! He might be in his 60's and were at the same level but he loves it (His name is Steve)! He says too me I am not long from retirement so I wanted to do something I enjoyed doing as a hobby into my day to day life. I loved this! He doesn't care about his age, he just knows he enjoys the work. If you don't do it now then when you reach 50 you will wish you did it 10 years ago! I highly recommend starting your career as a web developer (C#/ASP.NET, MVC, Javascript, SQL, CSS) as there are usually a lot of these around and your current experience with AWS will hold up well in interviews. It's also the easiest way to become a programmer in my opinion to go as a web dev.

Once you have done a few years as a programmer in web development you should have enough experience to move into most fields. You can move onto some Java based work if you like or even go in as front end designer if you enjoyed that more than backend work. To help get you get started I highly recommend this tutorial. Its great for learning the basic of software development, teaches you good habbits and gives you real life examples of the day to day work of a developer. And every couple of months the course goes down £10, so its super cheap.

Please don't think your too old ... I want more Steve's in this industry! Please PM me if you have any questions I would happily answer them :)

Resources for learning .Net

Hey there dotnet subreddit! I just had a question about what are some good resources and courses for learning .Net.

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A bit of about myself is that I have learned some C# for the last couple of years through making games in Unity. As the job market gets more and more competitive, I thought I would make myself a more attractive asset to companies out there and learn skills to help me jump into the development field. I am in the process of familiarizing myself with SQL and want to keep this motivational streak going by tackling .Net as well.

I've been digging around, trying to wrap my head around what .Net core, .Net Framework, ASP.Net and ASP.Net Core all are. I have a vague understanding of it.. but would like some clarification on what the difference is and which would be the best to learn first.

I take most of my courses in Udemy and found a couple that seem to be a good learning source, but wanted to ask the more seasoned veterans on if this will be a good move.

• The first one is: https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-aspnet-mvc-5-course/
• Seems a bit out dated, but it has the most reviews by far and had taken some courses from this instructor before.
• The second one is: https://www.udemy.com/course/build-an-app-with-aspnet-core-and-angular-from-scratch/
• Also teaches angular, but I am less interested in learning about web applications and would like to veer towards desktop applications.

If anyone could shed some light on my confusion and maybe give me some direction, it would be great!

Thank you in advance!

Some resources (note that I have yet to go through them but from the looks of it, they look pretty solid)

https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-aspnet-mvc-5-course/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUfO02gdMDXgOJWdv_jiLMg

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_ML5xP23TOWKUcc-oAE_Eg

Check out liveoverflow youtube channel too on browser vulnerabilities, they can give you an idea how the browser operates.

Frameworks and languages are more or less the same fundamentally, knowing why a certain stack is preferred than the other is more valuable than knowing many languages in my opinion. Take a fresh grad who lists all the languages he knows, truth be told, not many will really know what makes C, C or python, python. Sure they know how to write the syntax and use a couple of API but what if the employer ask these questions:

What is the difference between Python and C? or Java and C, even HTML and Python? That’s where you can really tell if the candidate actually knows the language he/she listed in their resume or just simply list it because he/she can write a couple of programs in it. Even simple things like what happens when I enter a URL and browser and browse? Pretty sure not all uni grads can clearly explain the processes behind such a simple action.

If you enjoy what your are doing in IT then that’s definitely a plus! I too came from non IT diploma and glad to enjoy IT more than my previous field.

I started with programming in 2012 making browser games.

I learned a lot via TheNewBoston back in the days.
Then I took this course (quite outdated, great tutor)
Then I went on with this
But as I said, this was 7+ years ago.

The .NET Community is better coders than your average Unity-tutorial maker.

If you're serious about becoming a better C#-programmer, leave the Unity-sphere for a while, it'll do you good. Here are a few videos/channels I personally like:

Lee Jackssons Excellent Microservices Video - Seriously, do this one.
Tim Corey - Top 5 C# dude out there
Nick Chapsas - Great dude, might find some good videos here

Here are some good YouTube-channels about coding in C# in the Unity-sphere :D
Infallible Code
Jason Weimann - 3D College
Dapper Dino