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There was a post recently that derided the 'poor grasp' of C# developers consequent to their inexposure to pointers.
I come from a C++ background so feel fortunate not to be tarnished with that brush. Only problem is, take your typical 21 year old graduating and joining software engineering. Unless you join MS/IBM/BAE and so forth and are working on embedded systems, the vast majority of folks are going to be ISV bound.
Scott Hanselman has just released a co-written book. It comes in at 1728 pages.
My singular point is to compare the breadth of technologies one has to cover
You need to be more or less 'Compos-Mentes' with all the subject matter covered because that is
You have
a) Your Specialists, e.g. 100 metre sprinters, Pole vaulters, long jumpers. these are your C/C++ people. Peter Stestoft kinda knows his software. Listening to this guy drilling down into the minutae is compelling and captivating.
b) Your Decathletes. These are the people that build sites using the technologies included in the aforementioned book
Comparison is not really relevant, but we do compare all to readily.
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I come from a C++ background so feel fortunate not to be tarnished with that brush. Only problem is, take your typical 21 year old graduating and joining software engineering. Unless you join MS/IBM/BAE and so forth and are working on embedded systems, the vast majority of folks are going to be ISV bound.
Scott Hanselman has just released a co-written book. It comes in at 1728 pages.
My singular point is to compare the breadth of technologies one has to cover
- Thorough coverage of how to implement ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX and the ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit
- An introduction to LINQ and many LINQ examples throughout the book side-by-side with the related SQL example to show you the differences between the two
- Enhanced coverage of XML use in ASP.NET including the new XML Schema Designer Add-on, LINQ to XML, LINQ for XML examples, and XSLTC.exe, a command-line XSLT compiler
- A new chapter on CSS design for ASP.NET and the Visual Web Developer CSS design tools
- A new chapter on the ASP.NET lifecycle and architecture best-practices
- Increased coverage of ASP.NET with SQL Server 2005 and Oracle as the databases
- Coverage of enhancing your ASP.NET applications with Microsoft’s new Silverlight for stunning video and animation uses
- Coverage of Scott Hanselman’s famous productivity tool picks for developers to help make you a more productive ASP.NET developer
- Updated coverage of migrating applications for previous ASP.NET versions
You need to be more or less 'Compos-Mentes' with all the subject matter covered because that is
- What customers expect
- What you need to stay ahead of the game
You have
a) Your Specialists, e.g. 100 metre sprinters, Pole vaulters, long jumpers. these are your C/C++ people. Peter Stestoft kinda knows his software. Listening to this guy drilling down into the minutae is compelling and captivating.
b) Your Decathletes. These are the people that build sites using the technologies included in the aforementioned book
Comparison is not really relevant, but we do compare all to readily.
More...
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