Thoughts on ASP.NET
My roommates and I are taking a class in ASP.NET. Our midterm is tomorrow and I’ve been teaching all night. We are approaching it from a C# standpoint.
The only language I’ve ever worked with is PHP (I started looking at rails over break). I, like many other kids my age, never had the chance to formally learn the language— this is actually my first programming class.
Half of a semester in, I already hate the language. To start, I despise Visual Web Developer. Its clunky and significantly slows down my computer. I hate that it’s a compiled language. It’s also a syntactical mess.
Although it’s been a long time since I’ve actually written code, syntactical errors aside, I’m picking up right where I left off. Many students in my class seem to be having trouble.
A few months ago MSFT announced that they will offer their development tools free of charge to students. From my experiences and what I see with others, it won’t make much of an impact.
