2006-10-07 05:44:03 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
Learn ANSI C and you will be able to pick up C++, C#, PHP and others with very little trouble. It will also help you appreciate all the higher level languages much better.
Learn VB.net and you will not have much trouble getting a job, there are more of these jobs than people to do them.
Learn proper ANSI SQL, so then you can talk to any commercial grade database you will ever run into. If it can't answer to SQL commands, nobody is going to want it. Know proper ANSI SQL and you will be at home in MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PgSQL, Informix, etc.
If you can learn VB.net and PHP, then you will be very hireable. Even if the job requires C# instead of VB.net, you already know the framework, and the PHP syntax is similar so you will understand the C# examples with no grief.
Java, Ruby, Python, etc. are nowhere close to the .net languages in terms of jobs available and the kinds of salary ranges expected. I worked in PHP almost nonstop for four years (and I had done .net before that), and it took me two months to get an offer for a PHP job, while I was getting offers for .net immediately. I took the .net job and did not look back.
2006-10-07 06:30:19 · answer #1 · answered by veraperezp 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It really depends on what is your purpose, just for fun, or to build your resume.
Fun, i'd recommend any web based programs. Try either one of the following
1. HTML
Source: http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
2. Visual Basic
Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/......
However, if work related again it depends on both your existing background and interest, but my take is take up databased programming, start with Structured Query Language a.k.a. SQL (which forms the basis of many database softwares Oracle, mySQL, MS Access). This will help you in work to no end, as you can now build exhaustive search tools to obtain info easily.
If you have Microsoft Access you can start there, else download mySQL from the following link: http://www.mysql.org/
You can learn or read up of the above mentioned software from this site: http://www.devguru.com/
2006-10-09 23:44:28 · answer #2 · answered by hotchocolate 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The stuff that never gets out of date is the database programmers. Having said that, learn Linux OS, the shell scripts that can make the Linux OS act like a program. Use Python to "wrap" shell scripts. Learn SQL to manipulate databases. Hey, try this free download of Linux, it's called ubuntu. It will run from your CD drive.
http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/philosophy
2006-10-07 05:57:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The current darlings of the industry is:
- C# .net on the Microsoft side
- J2EE on the Java (Sun) side
Depending on your personal likes and dislikes other types of coding is quite popular as well such as coding in:
- SQL (Both genaric and Orical MSSQL), Mysql etc.
- Oracle
- Linix
2006-10-07 05:52:37 · answer #4 · answered by Cowboy Logic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it depends on the field...but html (though not really a programming language) is very useful and it would hurt to learn Java
2006-10-07 05:47:19 · answer #5 · answered by Lala F 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋