Hi all,
A friend of a friend is down on his luck; he worked previously in a niche technology (Powerbuilder) and ended up out of work for a long period and in a bad way even to the point of being homeless at one point. He's been unemployed for several years as I understand it and is not only very rusty but totally out of the loop in terms of modern software development.
He had an interview recently for one of the few Powerbuilder jobs around and the feedback he got was that he needs experience with modern technologies specifically .NET. He is so out of touch he felt this would take expensive training and there would be a barrier to entry buying the tools, so when I told our mutual friend that .NET had free tools these days he was very interested.
So, I know Visual Studio is free but I'm hoping to find some really good "from the ground up" resources like a blog or tutorials that talk about getting set up with VS, learning C#, etc. I was suggesting doing some open source work could be a great way in but I don't even know how web-savvy he is with being off the grid for some time.
Can you help me with some resources - online and/or single-volume books I (or our church) might buy for him? Realistically I worry he might be TOO far gone but I want to try and him him the best shot to climb back up.
Thanks
ps: No it's not Suity.
A friend of a friend is down on his luck; he worked previously in a niche technology (Powerbuilder) and ended up out of work for a long period and in a bad way even to the point of being homeless at one point. He's been unemployed for several years as I understand it and is not only very rusty but totally out of the loop in terms of modern software development.
He had an interview recently for one of the few Powerbuilder jobs around and the feedback he got was that he needs experience with modern technologies specifically .NET. He is so out of touch he felt this would take expensive training and there would be a barrier to entry buying the tools, so when I told our mutual friend that .NET had free tools these days he was very interested.
So, I know Visual Studio is free but I'm hoping to find some really good "from the ground up" resources like a blog or tutorials that talk about getting set up with VS, learning C#, etc. I was suggesting doing some open source work could be a great way in but I don't even know how web-savvy he is with being off the grid for some time.
Can you help me with some resources - online and/or single-volume books I (or our church) might buy for him? Realistically I worry he might be TOO far gone but I want to try and him him the best shot to climb back up.
Thanks
ps: No it's not Suity.
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