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I am starting my first software engineering job in a week and wanted to sharpen my skills up. I'm looking for someone to suggest a good week long, web application project that can help me sharpen up my C#, Javascipt, and JQuery.
Thanks!
Brandon
Edit: As noted below this is a pretty broad question. Let me give a little more background. I am a strong programmer, but an entry level one. My experience as an intern for a year gave me glimpses into a number of the .Net and C# technologies, but what I have never done was put them all together into an inclusive project. I'm looking for a project idea that will have me setting up both client and server side code (purely for practice) that will provide me better insight into how each piece of the puzzle fits together.
write a blog engine. its useful, easy, and has bounded, easily understood requirements.
You could start with one of the ASP.NET Starter Kits and build upon it.
Being that you have C# experience, I highly recommend trying Asp.Net MVC as I feel it is the future of MS Web programming (I am not alone in this opinion... though it is just an opinion).
If nothing else, the MVC (model-view-controller) organization is a well established and useful method of coding that is used accross all sorts of platforms like php, ruby on rails, etc. - not as much of an 'island' like Asp.Net WebForms (Asp.Net WebForms are still great).
There are all sorts of great tutorials, the most famous being Nerd Dinner
You might also want to check out the materials available under the jquery tag on Channel9. There is a great video from PDC2008 that talks about ASP.NET and jQuery and another jQuery for the ASP.NET Developer presentation from DevDays 2010.
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I am attempting to create a natural language processing program in which I must be able to translate words and sentences as well as getting their parts of speech. I have heard that you can implement Google Translate API in your program, but have worked on it with no luck for the past 2 weeks. I have tried looking at other translation services such as this, but with my very limited background in C#, I can not make much out of the article. Can anybody provide me with a simple walk through, I would like to learn what I am doing so I can further my knowledge of C#, that I can use to be able to accomplish my goal. It does not have to be the Google API, but any help is greatly appreciated!
Two mainstream options are
the Microsoft API, this is free to a certain limit
the Google API is a paid service
An cheap and dirty option would be to call the Google translate directly via a HTTP request (in another words screen scrape the Google translate page) with the new ASP.NET Web API its quite easy to do HTTP requests elegantly. eg: to translate the English phrase "test this" from English to French you need the below URL.
http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/test%20this
Here is the asp.net web api resource.
I don't think you can use the code from the article in the way you intend. Since it's writing Bing took over altavista and changed what the destination of the url is, and this code didn't do any translation itself anyway, it just passes it off to babelfish to chew on but not in a way that is stable long term.
I'd go with google translate https://developers.google.com/translate/v2/getting_started
Best of luck!
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I was wondering if anyone has any tips on transitioning from PHP to asp.net c#? I've been developing in PHP for 7 years and I'm interested in learning asp.net. However, I've been disappointed with the books that I've read so far. Seems like every asp.net book has so many examples of clicking here and dragging here and right click on this, etc... that I seem to get lost. Learning the C# language isn't bad...I think I'm getting lost in either the IDE or the .NET framework. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
I suggest you look at asp.net/mvc, not webforms - it will be a more natural migration.
The good resource is the official site: http://asp.net/mvc - it has tutorials, videos and more.
The .NET base class library (BCL) is very large. It is what you will interact with most of the time (outside of your own code). The only advice I can give - look things up on MSDN. It has very good documentation and it is worth taking your time reading through it.
For Visual Studio - the VS tips and tricks blog is a really good resource to learn about it.
Coming from PHP there's probably less you need to un-learn (I was a classic ASP programmer for a long time and made the jump to .NET about seven years ago).
Microsoft has a bunch of free tutorials, as does the W3Schools site. I found the Macon State tutorials to be extremely helpful when I was starting out:
http://www.maconstateit.net/tutorials/aspnet20/default.htm
The Microsoft exam prep books are pretty straightforward, too, mostly dealing with code instead of drag-and-drop.
I felt the exact same way about the .NET / Visual Studio environment when I first approached it.
If you're not into all the GUI stuff I would recommend George Shepherd's ASP.NET 4 Step by Step from Microsoft Press.
I learned ASP.NET basics on the 3.5 version of this book and I loved it. He really starts with the nuts and bolts stuff (open a telnet window and interact directly with the HTTP server for example) that I think would appeal to most *NIX veterans. His approach gave me a good feel for what all the complicated controls in ASP.NET are really doing under the hood, which was instrumental in growing my understanding of the platform.
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-ASP-NET-Step/dp/0735627010/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325190956&sr=1-5
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I'm a C# ASP.net MVC Developer.
I got a new job and have to move to the java world (which I left few years ago :))
Are there any recommendations for
asp.net mvc equivalent java framework
also,
are there any simmilar technologies like LINQ in java world?
(I've used LINQ with entity framework, I guess I would use Hibernate with it's own query language)
Also, is there a good book / tutorial you know for C# to Java transition?
update: I'm currenly looking at Spring MVC
Check Play framework
Apache Struts is an equivalent to ASP.NET MVC:
http://struts.apache.org/
I used Struts 2 and no problem.
http://struts.apache.org/2.x/index.html
Note: I do NOT recommend Struts 1. They are completely different. Struts 2 is way better.
Disclaimer: I use Ruby on Rails now :)
Edit:
The official docs has plenty of documentation.
http://struts.apache.org/2.2.1.1/docs/home.html
I'd recommend looking at Spring. It's like Enterprise Framework on the .NET side, if I understand the latter correctly.
It's a library of modules built on top of dependency injection and aspect oriented programming.
My experience with JSF 2.0 has been good and i dont feel any need to learn Spring. From books i can recommend "JavaServer faces 2.0: the complete reference" By Ed Burns, Neil Griffin, Chris Schalk
are there any simmilar technologies like LINQ in java world?
Check out Scala language. It's full of functional idioms while cooperates with Java pretty smoothly (actually, it's bytecode is the same as Java's. For example, F# requires it's runtime to execute assembly).
And there is awesome Lift framework supporting MVC pattern among other great features.
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I'm trying to create (with your help) a list of open-source asp.net projects that are worth looking at, for reasons like a nice project design, nice solutions for common problems et cetera. The main effort of this list should be, that you feel that you have learned something from viewing a project's source code.
If you do post a project, please provide a link to the project page and tell us, why the project is worthy being metioned here. You can use this template:
Template:
Project Name:
URL:
Project Description:
Technologies used:
Why is the project worth looking at?:
List of recommendable open-source projects:
Nerddinner
I'm making this a community wiki, so nobody should complain about this question. Feel free to edit it.
Project Name: NerdDinner.com - Where Geeks Eat
URL: http://nerddinner.codeplex.com/
Project Description: Organizing the world's nerds and helping them eat in packs.
Technologies used:
ASP.NET MVC
OpenID
Virtual Earth
Twitter integration
iCal events
RSS Feeds
Why is the project worth looking at?: The best way to learn a new framework is to build something with it. This tutorial walks through how to build a small, but complete, application using ASP.NET MVC, and introduces some of the core concepts behind it.
Make use of www.asp.net and aspallaince.com
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Could anyone recommend me a good tutorial about Silverlight animation for a beginner, and I am especially interested in how to read the animation code in XAML (I always feel magic code) and develop my own animation. If the tutorial covers any tools which could facilitate animation code rede and animation development, it will be great!
Thanks in advance,
George
I found to be the best starting point is actually the silverlight.net page.
Silverlight.net / Learning
delivers a lot of quite well made tutorial videos. Animations inclusive! :)
You might want to download the Microsoft Expression Blend trial. Blend makes it easier to develop applications for both WPF and Silverlight. The startup screen contains some examples.
And this site is pretty useful:
http://silverlight.net/quickstarts/
On Microsoft Showcase there are a lot of great video tutorial about Silverlight and Expression Blend.
In your case I would recomend watching Silverlight Fundamentals (Part 7 of 9): Animation.
The Project Rosetta at http://channel9.msdn.com/continuum/tutorials can be helpful
The Project "Rosetta Stone" Tutorials are dedicated to helping designers and developers build applications in Silverlight while taking advantage of skills they already know.