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Jimmy Clark wrote:Just to clarify, .NET is a platform for creating software and C# is a programming language.
The core programming languages "behind" .NET implementations are: Visual Basic, C++, and C#.
There are other programming languages that are also compatible with .NET Platform, e.g. COBOL, SmallTalk, Perl.
If you do not have any programming experience or knowledge, you should probably try to get the C# certification and then try to get the .NET afterwards.
If you understand programming and have a little experience, then you should try for the .NET certification.
The information that you learn in any certification program will help you in your job search.
David Sanz wrote:
I apologize for the confusion. The two options available are C# and VB.NET.
Henry Wong wrote:
David Sanz wrote:
I apologize for the confusion. The two options available are C# and VB.NET.
Then basically... the first option will teach you C#, which is a language similar to Java, for .NET. And the second option will teach you Visual Basic for .NET., which is a language similar to... well... Visual Basic.
Henry
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
By "perception" you meant "false and misguided perception", I presume.Mike Isano wrote:. . . VB.net suffers from the "VB" perception of being a junk language for working with Microsoft office. . . .