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[ajcics]

I have a lot of skepticism when it comes to choosing .NET and C# for a brand new developer looking to break into the business. If you don't have a CS degree and years of experience and you don't have job placement you are shooting yourself in the foot. Enterprise environments tend to go with experience and degrees and for someone without either of those, even out of bootcamp...sounds like ice-skating uphill to me.

that said, I believe this company offers some of the best advice in terms of projects for your portfolio and seems to have one of the better curriculums out there.

[alfredorodriguez]

My Stack:
*Backend*
1. (C#) ASP core
2. (JS) (MERN)
3. (TS) (MERN) For large Apps.
*Frontend*
1. (JS) React
2. (TS) Angular
3 (C#) Blazor
*Mobile:*
1. JS : React-Native
2. C#: Xamarin
3. Dart: Flutter.
And For have fun PHP.

[aeterna_victrix]

Just go with C# if your just getting into coding, getting your environment set up and working with other languages can be a major pain point and very discouraging. Visual Studio will get you up and running and make the learning experience much smoother. Once you have the fundamentals of C# down you can decide what type of UI you want to learn. Either way C# will have you covered for any UI from web to video games

[staninjapan]

A beginner's question from a beginner who needs, but does not want, to skill up just a little.
I use MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Google Docs' various tools to make materials for work.
Why am I asking about coding then?
It takes me hundreds of hours a year, usually of my own time, so unpaid, to do this.

Is there a simple way to reduce the 'donkey work' of repetitive processes by using a simple coding tool rather than an office application?
I make games, worksheets, quizzes, puzzles and other things, usually very heavy on a selection of images which appear repeatedly throughout the print-out or on-screen activity.
I have tried using online services provided by so-called educators' websites, but the scope of what they can do is far, far too limited.

Any advice would be great, thanks.

[KeanuRevan]

So as a complete beginner (I don't plan on getting a job in development, but maybe some freelance work) would you suggest still learning C#? What front end languages should I pair up also? I did some C++, C#, and HTML in school, but my major didn't have a focus in learning these languages, everyone just used them for a basic project, and then moved on. I currently have a job where sometimes we use something called foxpro, and I really don't understand it so it's a good thing it isn't used much. I guess I'm just looking some a few languages that would be a good set of skills to know in case I ever want to do personal stuff, or even in the future if I ever do anything freelance, or God forbid I have to leave and try to find another job. I'm at a complete loss, and I'm spending more time on YouTube than actually learning since I don't want to waste time (ironically).