researching c#

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pls i need to get a general view on c#. i wont to know why the language is not popular among college students at all. 2. is it necessary that we know the program. 3. what do we stand to gain from understand the language better.

koenekebe · Answer

thank you guys. any more option will be greatly appreciated

vitenyi_i · Answer

Answer to Q1: I guess the same reason why Visual Basic was not popular among college students in the 90's but was the single biggest Windows development tool at that time. A lot of things that are very big in the real world aren't that fascinating from an academic standpoint. Conversely a lot of things that are big in academia aren't that useful in the real world. E.g. if you want to develop professionally using SmallTalk then you've just limited yourself to just a few dozen shops in your continent. Answer to Q2 & Q3: If you want to develop software for any shop that is not anti-Microsoft then yes it will be critical to know anything you can about .NET (C# the .net framework and yes even a little VB.NET won't hurt).

ssswamii · Answer

i wont to know why the language is not popular among college students at all. Because college students are often more concerned about political views than real world problem solving. :-) Most professors I've had are like this too very anti-Microsoft; this is due to Microsoft being the richest most powerful software corporation in the world (i.e. the bad guy ) All the little guys bash the big guy resulting in kids (hacker community college CS people Slashdot etc.) and rival corporations that hate Microsoft with a vengence. 2. is it necessary that we know the program. C# is not a program it's a language. And .NET is not a program either it's a framework or platform to code against. .NET is unique in one area - for the first time ever developers can write in an entire host of popular languages (C# C++ VB even Java and JScript) and use the same functionality (i.e. the .NET framework class library) ~basically~ making all languages equally powerful. Try not to think of C# as something necessary to learn; really C# is just a different syntax of using the .NET framework class library; it is the library you need to be concerned about learning. Is it necessary? Yes IMO it is. If you are going to be doing any kind of development for the Windows platforms it will be absolutely necessary to learn some managed code. Even in you are doing Unix development there has been talk that Novell's implementation of .NET called Mono (go-mono.org) will be a major language on some of the Linux platforms in the coming years. Should that be the case C# would be prevalent in both the Windows and Unix worlds. . what do we stand to gain from understand the language better. You gain experience as a developer writing applications for the most widely used operating system in the world. You create for yourself a knowledge of a portable framework for writing modern-day applications. Additionally the .NET framework contains an almost never-ending wealth of information readily available if you are willing to learn.

koenekebe · Answer

pls guys just give me ur thought. i just what to know ur opinions pleaseeeeeeeee