Futurevisions of .NET/General programming

[the_lmich]

Hello girls and guys,

Ill finish my education as an it-specialist in the beginning of 2005. Till then Ill have learned all about the NET-Framework .. all thats interesting for an application-developer. (ie. prepared for MCAD, webforms with c#, winforms vb-net, ado.net, and so on ...)

I got expirience in coding html, js, css, php, c++, pascal ... started in the late 80s with 6510 coding ... started an stuy in computer science and-so-on ...

Enough self-praise Heres my question:
In focus of what .NET 2005 has got to offer, we are going to do more and more click-and-move-work. The effect isnt only, that everything will be developed faster; on the other hand "coding" will also be available for more people then ever.

What I think now (while Im worrying about my future) is the following:
Real coders only got chances to build compilers, frameworks, components near to hardware. What about the others? Are projects getting so complex in the next two years that we really have a need of easy-going-developement? Or is it useful to learn some architectual competences, because architectures couldnt be generated by machines yet?
I also got high graphical abilities - sometimes I think that this must be the solution of all questions. A combination between gfx and coding must be a good base for doing my work in internet-agencies.

Im confused about that for over weeks and Im really afraid of loss of job-opportunities. Maybe you could give me hope by showing your own experiences and thoughts.

By the way: Im thirty, got 16 years experience.

Thanks a lot in advance,
Torsten

PS: Im from germany, so Ill apologise for all the incorrect grammar and orthography.

 

[Robby]

When I saw all these wizard-like functionalities in VS2005, I thought the same thing. This will probably bring more programmers into the .NET world but not developers, developers still require experience and expertise, but then again many employers dont really care - as long as they can save a buck.

I guess time will tell.

 

[Jay1b]

My sentiments exactly. Programming is about learning the code, developing is about designing and implementing.

My lecturer always told us to go into design, the implementation will eventually be incredibly simple and testing is mind numbing. Design is where the money is, or will be.

 

[the_lmich]

Damn guys,

I hoped youd get me some good news. But it seems I was rigth with my thoughts. Design is the only strategy to achieve success in this global ****.

Good bye LDA, STA, CMP ... welcome aggregation, entities and use-cases ...

Thats what my father must have felt in the early eighties as his boss said "Sorry, we dont need your merchant abilities anymore - we now have this really cute calculating machines, called computers."

Time to change my old vans for a new suit now ... see you ,
:-| Torsten