Newbie looking for advice, would be much appreciated

Hello All,

I am looking to focus on Web Application Development for my career path. I have no knowledge of OOP. I did pickup ASP.NET 2.0 Unleashed.....I am assuming that this may not been the best first place to start since, I do not understand any of the VB code that's going on in the chapters....Also, I was looking forward to focusing more on C#, and even though unleashed provides C# files, i find it easier to follow along with the book that has C# code in it. If that makes sense to anyone

I'm really just looking on opinions on where a newbie like myself should start(ie: books)......Any and all info is appreciated

Hi there, welcome to the wonderful world of ASP :) First thing is go here nd check out the resources available. All the tools you need are free. There are sample applications and tutorials there. The way i learnt .Net having been a VB programmer was to get involved with a project called DotNetNuke (www.dotnetnuke.com) which is open source nad has a vibrant community of developers who all ty to help each other out. The project gets a lot of architectural support from Microsoft so there s lots of best prctice code in there.

Also you should look into the new technologies like ATLAS which is now called the Microsoft AJAX library, LINQ for database access and the .Net 3.0 tools.

Get on the forums and dont just ask questions try to answer them as well its a great way to learn and people will help you along the way.

Cheers

Some resources for you here:

http://www.webref.eu/microsoft-asp.net-resources.php

Also, read asp.net blogs, you can find a section on .net blogs here (under dotnet about a page down):

http://www.webref.eu/interesting-blogs.php

Highly rated is:

http://www.dotnetrocks.com

Rgds

Accelerator

Thank you both for the quick replies...........I appreciate the resources.........I think i may not have been clear enough with my question to get a complete understanding.

I guess my main question was, since i have no background in OOP, should I be learning VB.NET/C# before even attempting to learn ASP.NET? If so, what learning materials(books, etc) do you recommend.

Thanks so much.

I always find learning by example the best way to do things. So I really do recommend downloading the starter sites and runningthrough them in the debugger and following along with the code to see how things are done. Once you see how experienced developers write code in C#/VB.Net you will begin to understand not only OOP but also the model for ASP.Net. The starter sites are full applications that you can tinker with to experiment and see how different things work. The cool thing about starting from a starter site is you can see yur handy work straight away thus getting a nice confidence boost which will help your learning.

Books: There are tons around, a lot are availabl as pdf so you dont need to buy them.

Leaning Materials: Start sites, plus there are step by step tutorials on the asp.net site for just about everything you need to know.

Cheers