A Learners Journey

Gareth Bradley
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First Post - Hello World!

I currently blog here, but have decided to move my learning journey to C-Sharpcorner (reasons I will elaborate on in a moment).

I'm a programmer by trade. During the day I work on using a proprietary domain specific language for Publishing, Vista 4GL, and the last couple of years in my own time, I have been learning C#, OOP principles and some ASP.NET MVC. During the last few weeks I have made a decision to ramp up my learning to try for MCSD certificates in 2016. So this means I have decided to help cement my learning by:

Start live streaming my coding sessions here. It seems an interesting opportunity and something I have been keen to explore and excited. I hope tomorrow night I will stream for the first time!
Once Windows 10 launches, I want to start learning Windows 10 UWP - I'm currently watching and the MS Virtual Academy videos on the train to work, so hopefully once the 29th hits, I can get stuck in.
I have wanted to build things for a while, so I have set myself a challenge to build a .NET Wrapper (Clarizen.Net) for a product I use at work, Clarizen. This is a Project Management, Agile and Colloboration tool, which is pretty good. They have an open API which I have decided to create the Wrapper for. I have started this already and the code can be found here:

https://github.com/garfbradaz/clarizen.net
To build Clarizen.Net properly and to help developers integrating with it, I'm also working on the following mini-projects to complement this:

POCO generator from Clarizen JSON Entities.
Simple RESTful HttpClient (using HttpWebRequest under the hood). This will also be good experience for learning more about Http, how it works and its Spec (RFC). I come from an EDI background so I'm used to writing/reading mundane Specifications.

Why C-Sharpcorner?

I have found myself using C-Sharpcorner more and more and I now use it as reference more often than Stackoverflow and Code Project. That is a testament to the quality of the content here, so it was an easy choice to switch here. Plus there is an audience here where I can get feedback, which I wasn't getting on my site. Do not get me wrong, I will continue with my blog, but my learning journey will continue here.

Follow my Journey as I learn: