dotnet academic: Dear Colleagues:

I am a systems guy who has been working with hardware, networking and basic
scripting for ten years or so. I have been given the opportunity to attend
..Net classes of all sorts as part of the MSDN training track. I already
have the MCSE track under my belt and that is where my strengths lie.

The problem is that I have never programmed. Hell, the only scripting I
have done is from templates here and there that are so simple that you can
figure out what does what, set them inside of an active directory
organizational unit and pooft.

Now here is the question. . . if I start taking these classes without any
knowledge of programming, including no knowledge of vbasic, am I going to
drown in a heartbeat or do these classes start as if they were vbasic, but
more .net thrown in.

Advice would be greatly appreciated.

Roger

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I'll start off and we can both hope others will jump in with informed
opinions.
Checking here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/training/find/findcourse.asp

and searching on both "Microsoft Visual Studio .NET" and "Microsoft .NET
Framework", you'll see that most of the course descriptions indicate that
they are for students with prior development experience. There are also a
few introductory offerings.
As you didn't mention any specific course(s), I'd say (given your
background) that if you choose introductory courses first, you will succeed.
My experience instructing at the college level has taught me that desire to
learn and stubborn refusal to quit often breeds success in the most unlikely
places :-)
Speaking of colleges, if you have time, you might investigate .NET
programming class offerings at your local community colleges and/or vo-techs
as a way to prepare for the training you've been offered. You should be able
to find introductory level classes at very modest cost.

--
Peter [MVP Visual Developer]
Jack of all trades, master of none.