On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 20:47 -0800, stevemcc wrote: > So I am a college student interested in programming. I've done some > programming, just a little bit in java, python, VB, and php. I noticed > theres a lot of demand for .NET developers and I use linux most of the time. > Is mono close enough .net that learning mono would prepare me for an > eventually job that might require me to develop using .NET and windows.
Absolutely, yes. Especially since there is effectively no Mono specific / .NET-on-LINUX documentation. I've used just the O'Reilly .NET related texts and been very productive with Mono. > Or are they close, but still different beasts? There are platform specific bits; but the bulk of your code/programming will be unaffected by platform. The primary issue will be with OS integration (like System.Management) and issues with UI stuff (but widget libraries are always a pain and a moving target). Also there are some parts of .NET that aren't available in Mono (like WCF, WPF, WWF, CAS, & System.Management) as well as the occasional thing that just won't build (like DbLinq <http://groups.google.com/group/dblinq>). _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
