Welcome to the Dark Side

That is what shils told me when I asked her for learning materials for .NET. It is not that .NET is something dark or sinister, it’s just an old office joke implying that Opensource is good and Microsoft is, well, bad.

I have began my first few steps in learning .NET. Right now I am reading a book entitled “C# for Java Developers”, the very same book that Kristian and shils read as they wrestled their way in learning the “witch craft” — the Microsoft Magic! So far, every concept that I have encountered is easy to grasp. After all C# and Java came from the same Object Oriented Programming concepts. But this doesn’t stop in C# since I still have to learn the more advanced topics like ASP.NET, Web Services, Remoting, etc. before I can say that I am “.NET-ready”.

 

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