[Gllug] OT(ish): Advice

[Matthew Thompson]

On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 10:34  am, Neil Fryer wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I have a question for all of you, and hope that you can give me some 
> advice.
> I am have been a SysAd for the last 4 1/2 years, and I really want to 
> get
> out of this line, and into programming, but I can't really afford to 
> take a
> cut in salary.
> The only programming that I have ever really done, would be scripting
> (Bash), and a little bit of Perl, and Python. So basically I'm willing 
> to
> learn a load of new things but have no idea how to get into this line, 
> can
> anyone offer any advice at all on this?

Much though you and others may find this dis-tasteful I am going to 
suggest Microsoft's .NET languages. Mostly VB.net and C#.net

They're getting more and more popular and there are loads of books to 
get you started. There is a bit of an entry barrier though in that you 
have to purchase the development environment as the free C# compilers 
don't yet support the technologies that most paying customers will be 
looking at (Web services and ASP.net etc)

M at t :o)


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