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Since I started working I go to StackOverflow for everything. But as we all know it is good to have many ways to skin a cat. where is your other favorite website to visit for programming Reference?
Um, google?
When working on Microsoft products, msdn is very valuable.
I hit up the documentations of whatever languages I happen to be using.
man pages.
Check out this SO thread, it's .NET specific, but great resources.
Google is a great resource obviously. But with google knowing how to ask the right question is half of the battle.
And a lot of times documentation comes with the selected technology you are working with.
Recently I've fallen in love with the Apple Developer Center for all the great guides, and documentation they provide.
Also MSDN for .net.
For Flash the Documentation is good, and actionscript help and tuts gotoandplay. (Game specific-ish)
When I start using a framework / library, I always have a look at how their documentation is ; if it's looking fine, it becomes a "reference" I tend to check before anything else.
(Well, that's when I'm not one of those who whoose using that framework/library ; else, quality of the documentation generaly is a criteria of choice)
For instance, in PHP, you just have to go to php.net/function_name (like, for instance php.net/in_array) to get documentation of a function -- that's really useful.
(And there are often user-notes at the bottom of the page, which can be quite helpful to help solving common problems)
Then, google is often my friend ^^
Well...
Java-wise I often find myself drawn to the API.
W3Schools has great in-depth tutorials on HTML / XML / scripting of all sorts.
Twitter, I follow a bunch of fellow programmers and muckity-mucks in the programming world.
Not a website, but as a general series of succint reference books, I like the O'Reily "Pocket Reference" books.
http://code.google.com/, for everything else there is always Code Complete!
Gotapi.com is so important. It's got online documentation for many languages with a slick search system. Try it out.
For technical questions the "official" IRC(Internet Relay Chat) channel of the technology/language I am using. I have learned so much from IRC it is unbelievable.
I go to the official programming reference/manual of X. Like PHP -> php.net, jquery -> docs.jquery.com, rails -> api.rubyonrails.org.
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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 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'm conducting an interview in 45 min (my second ever!) for a candidate who's pretty junior and states she knows VB and C#. I do not have any experience in either of those languages.
Does anyone have any good simple interview questions for these languages that I can ask that will be informative without being too intimidating?
Note: I'm looking for language-specific ones, and not of the FizzBuzz variety (which I'm already planning on asking).
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UPDATE: It's over - and thanks everyone! As Jon Skeet says - it's hard to ask questions to which you don't know the answers but I did find that her reaction to the question being asked, even without the answer, was pretty telling and showed me immediately whether or not she was familiar with the concepts being presented.
The problem with asking language-specific questions for a language you don't know yourself is that if any of the answers deviate from the specific ones you've been given here, you won't know if they're right or not. (I humbly suggest that most of the answers given so far suffer from that problem.)
Do you have a laptop available, so you can get them to code and see whether the result is the desired output? If so, FizzBuzz-style questions are a good start, and while you won't be able to judge the idiomatic style of the code you can at least see if it works :)
I find that a useful question to ask is what the candidate likes and dislikes about the language. What would they change if they could?
There are numerous lists on the web.
The C# ones one Mark Wagner's blog are quite good and range from the fairly simple to quite hard so you can go as deep as you like. However, as the commentators have pointed out some of them are in danger of becoming out date (if they're not already) - so use them as a guide.
Look here, maybe you can pick up something not too senior:
Questions every good .NET developer should be able to answer?
Good C# Interview Questions for a Senior Dev Position
I'm no expert on interviewing, so please take this as an opinion rather than gospel.
I'd ask the interviewee to bring in a hundred lines or so of code they've written in each language that accomplishes something interesting. In the interview, let them know what languages you do know, and ask them to review their code with you. Even without knowing the language you should be able to ask questions about various design decisions and determine whether the interviewee is actually comfortable with the language.
I think it is far more important to find out how the candidate thinks than to test their specific knowledge on a topic. For example, they may know C# but do they have the aptitude to learn VB.NET, or F#, or some other language. What makes them tick? Do they get excited by new framework features? What do they do for hobbies? How do they tackle problems? These things are far more important than knowing a language inside and out, especially when even the best developers still rely on the compiler to tell them they screwed up.
Its very dificult to answer your question, because we can list thousands of questions. However here is my abstract idea:
Test whether he knows all OOPs concepts and how it can be acheived in C#/VB.Net
Avoid critical questions as they are juniors.
Test them whether they can differntiate .Net languages from other HLL
Explain some .Net features and ask how they will achive them using C#/VB.Net
(ex: Reflection, Genrics, property)
Make sure that they can very-well pick-up if they given chance to work.
How about asking which strengths and weaknesses do she sees in each language? What would make one more appropriate than the other?
Note that while one could say that she isn't so familiar as to know an answer, that in itself can be a fine answer. Part of what you are wanting to see is their ability to communicate either technical arguments for or against something or an ability to say, "Well, I don't have enough experience to give a thorough answer on this."
I usually interview people for c# developer role. I have found questions at the following URL very helpful for Junior, Mid and Senior developers. You can find a variety of c# interview questions segregated by topic. Here is the URL C# Interview Questions
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I am tired of tutorials that just enumerate the concepts with examples. How about some tutorials that show the wrong way of doing and then the correct way of doing things? It would be great to learn things like interfaces, delegates, abstract classes, singleton ...etc that way.
It would be great to read some clean code online as well but its hard to find...
any recommendations??
I develop in C# , .net , MS technologies...
I think the Head First books provide a really easy to read and learn from approach to learning the basics of software engineering. You can do Head First C#, then Head First Design Patterns and Head First Object Oriented Analysis and Design.
Then again, these books aren't free....
You might want to look for AppDev and/or Total Training e-learnings.
Meanwhile, there are some webcasts on Microsoft website that are very interesting. I learned MVC architecture that way.
Microsoft Events and Webcasts
http://www.dofactory.com/Patterns/Patterns.aspx covers all of the GOF patterns, with examples in C#.
http://www.oodesign.com/ is another great reference site. Also covers all of the GOF patterns, with code samples, and a more in-depth explanation of each. Also lists pros and cons of each pattern, and appropriate situations to use them.
Have you read Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by the "Gang of Four"?
That was the book which made me glad that I'd learned a programming language that supported object-oriented programming.
It doesn't show the wrong way to do things, but part of the "pattern description" are the "forces" or circumstances for which each pattern is a useful solution.
The code examples are small (but clean).
For me with C#, I'm always going back to Juval Lowey's Programming .NET Components.
Object-Oriented-Design-Heuristics is great and appropriate for your needs IMHO. Head First Design Patterns is wonderful also, with interesting examples of incorrect and correct practices for certain cases.
You might be able to find some good advice on programming techniques, but there's no wax-on-wax-off for coding skills. You learn by doing it. Mostly by doing it wrong a lot at first. I know it sucks, but it's the way it is.
Unfortunately I don't know if there's any such resource out there, but this sounds like a great idea for a website. Something like fmylife.com, but specifically for OOP where users post their real-life problematic object-oriented solutions that can be discussed and fixed very much like in SO. All questions and answers tagged with a specific design pattern would represent real examples for that pattern.
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Are there any good C# focused blogs and/or podcasts out there?
Audio Podcasts:
.NET Rocks
CodeCast
Coding QA
Deep Fried Bytes
Hanselminutes
Herding Code
Jesse Liberty YapCast
Pluralcast
TheSmackdown
Spaghetti Code Podcasts
Ms Dev Show
Eric Lippert works on the C# team and often talks about language design choices. As for podcasts, I would check out .NET Rocks! not exactly c# or even always .NET specific, but still might help you out some.
Checkout Scott Hansleman's podcast, Hanselminutes. Scott talks about various .NET related tools and technologies every week and is always very interesting.
Check out this SO thread - tons of useful links
Here you go:
Visual C# Developer Center
C-sharpcorner
Csharpfriends
If it's just the language C#, I would recommend
C# team blogs and
C# Frequently Asked Questions where the team posts
Make sure you read Krzysztof Cwalina blog of .NET framework guidelines.
HerdingCode is a podcast I quite enjoy, it's run by 4 .NET bloggers. Although it's not exactly C# specific, it's in the area.
I'm not aware of anything purely in C#, but if you're interested in seeing code, try these...
A code-focussed video podcast, often in C#: http://www.dnrtv.com/.
Also, http://www.dimecasts.net/.
DNRTV definitely had some nice Bill Wagner episodes you'd be interested in.
Visual C# Community on MSDN.
They have MVPs blogs, twittes and some good links :)