Hi Tyler, I learned ASP.NET within the last year and have no regrets. I worked with ASP before but mostly CF. I think it's a great idea to diversify your skills as much as possible .It will make you more marketable if nothing else.
I did do my certification for ASP.NET . It took me about three months for the MCP. For me if was a good motivator to make me dig deep into the subject. In the process I learned alot about OO programming. Although, I cannot say that I am a full fledged OO designer, I can easily understand and learn from open source code available. I chose to use C# because of it's similarity to Java. Now when I look at Java code it makes a lot more sense to me and able to understand it. And best of all I can apply those concepts to CF as well. I read a lot of OO programming article with Cold Fusion and it gave me a good idea. But doing it in a "real" OO language made it much easier. - Frank On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:07:55 -0500, Tyler Silcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone on this list gone down the Microsoft application > development certification lane? A few of us here at our company might > be getting a chance to take some classes to further our IT skills and > since we're all pretty comfortable with CF, we're thinking it might be > a good idea to learn a little .NET and maybe get a MCAD or MCSD > certification. (There's always Flash and Java classes, there's just a > ton more out there on MS products...of course, that's because MS put > them out there.) > > Anyways I have a few questions, if you have the time: > > 1) Are the courses and/or certifications worth it? (Especially if > you're paying next to nothing) > > 2) Can you expect, with reasonable intelligence and a moderate > programming history, to take the required courses > (http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcad/requirements.asp) and then > pass the Exams shortly after? ...or will you need some good hands-on > time, building apps? > > 3) Other than the .NET related courses, if you had a learning fund to > dispose of, what classes would y'all take? > > TIA-> > > Tyler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get help! RoboHelp http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=58 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:147065 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
