Been a developer now for 3 hours ...

[AtW]

This is unfair competings.

I was reading of many books before I had my turn at the computer. Only after been doing codes for many weeks was employer selling me as software engineer.

Get a twitter account.

HTH

[DiscoStu]

This is unfair competings.

I was reading of many books before I had my turn at the computer. Only after been doing codes for many weeks was employer selling me as software engineer.

Bob, you're neglecting your bloggings again. Kindly do the needful and revert.

[RichardCranium]

A heap of mis-spelled and poorly punctuated wank by a sockpuppet

[DeepBlue]

This is unfair competings.

I was reading of many books before I had my turn at the computer. Only after been doing codes for many weeks was employer selling me as software engineer.

Uh, Bob. Just one doubt...

Did you do the needful in your interview? You read what your friend wrote on the whiteboard, whilst he was standing behind the teleconference camera?

This is very good.

[Zippy]

I am almost certain to secure a dev contract in 3 -4 months, basically the time I will have learned most developer interview questions ...

Oh dear. I do hope you won't be asked to actually fix anything.

[Weltchy]

Well I have been learning development now for about 3 hours doing some Microsoft HOLs ( I was away for awile but just heard the newest kid on the block - a "snack" , a learning snack !! ) .... I havent written a single line of code yet .... it is just soooo much simplier than I thought - just select this and that , drag this there , fill this field ..... this is easier than I thought ! I can really get into this programming business ... after first look - it is the same as infrastructure - just windows and windows and windows.

Anyway , back to my learning snack - creating a Web Part.

Now , I dare the next agent who calls me to ask me weather I am a developer and can create web parts !

Well, I think this will guarantee you a chance of a job as a web front end monkey. Have you considered your next core skill however?

[Weltchy]

That's what coding is now. Plugging .Net widgets (sorry Weltchy ) together. Fill yer boots. Loooooooooaaaaaaadsa moooooooneeeeeey.

HTH

Control damn it. Control.

[Diestl]

Takes about 5 years experience before you can master .NET, its huge.

[Weltchy]

Takes about 5 years experience before you can master .NET, its huge.

The trick to mastering .NET and development in general is to understand it from first principals. Then it becomes easy. Its mastering how to understand those first principals that require years of practise and experience.

I'm fairly confident that I, or any other expereinced developer, could pick up another mainstream language we're not familiar with, and given a couple of weeks, get to a level of proficiency where we would be comfortable enough to discuss it with an SME for that language.

[DeepBlue]

I'm fairly confident that I, or any other expereinced developer, could pick up another mainstream language we're not familiar with, and given a couple of weeks, get to a level of proficiency where we would be comfortable enough to discuss it with an SME for that language.

Agreed. I'm Java/J2EE. Give me a week to become productive in .NET, another two to three and I might write some reasonable code. Three months in I'd expect to be able to pimp out those skills. One year before I actually understand the cleaner ways to work around the imperfections in the language.

But only because I understand a bunch of the nastier aspects of Java. If I wasn't looking for the tricks, hacks and kludges, becoming competent would take much longer.