For too long now i have been focusing my programming attention developing standalone applications. Nowadays it would appear most of the money to be made is in the web development segment. It has been this way for a very long time now. I suppose i can blame my lack of moving on the fact that when i first started learning to program it was at a time when standalone applications was all there was really, a time before web development (at least in an object oriented sense anyway) gained prominence. It was a habit more than anything. ASP.NET had not been invented. ASP (classical ASP) had merely just been invented or had not existed.
There is still a need for local application development in today' s society, but nowhere near on the mass scale that web development has brought about. Especially with ASP.NET. Nowadays there is a huge need for not just dynamic behaving web sites (they behave more like standalone apps) but web applications/services that can be invoked through them.
My main ambition is to move on to developing for profit and not just as a hobby. The best way to achieve this is without a doubt to move on into web development! The internet has really exploded in the last 10 years with the need for e-commerce, dynamic sites such as web shops and various booking systems that make money. Developers are needed to make them.
There is two ways to achieve this, via PHP (a scripting platform and more geared at open source) or ASP.NET (a true programming platform). I chose ASP.NET because in my opinion it is more superior. It is more recent, better for dealing with complex sites, is backed by a strong framework (.NET), a powerful IDE (integrated development environment), websites behave more like standalone apps as well and most importantly i can use C# (a language i have strong faith in its capabilities and develop standalone apps in anyway) to develop the sites in. This should not only make the transitioning more straightforward but give me access to an area where profit can be made since ASP.NET web development market is the most highly sought after at the minute.
There is still a need for local application development in today' s society, but nowhere near on the mass scale that web development has brought about. Especially with ASP.NET. Nowadays there is a huge need for not just dynamic behaving web sites (they behave more like standalone apps) but web applications/services that can be invoked through them.
My main ambition is to move on to developing for profit and not just as a hobby. The best way to achieve this is without a doubt to move on into web development! The internet has really exploded in the last 10 years with the need for e-commerce, dynamic sites such as web shops and various booking systems that make money. Developers are needed to make them.
There is two ways to achieve this, via PHP (a scripting platform and more geared at open source) or ASP.NET (a true programming platform). I chose ASP.NET because in my opinion it is more superior. It is more recent, better for dealing with complex sites, is backed by a strong framework (.NET), a powerful IDE (integrated development environment), websites behave more like standalone apps as well and most importantly i can use C# (a language i have strong faith in its capabilities and develop standalone apps in anyway) to develop the sites in. This should not only make the transitioning more straightforward but give me access to an area where profit can be made since ASP.NET web development market is the most highly sought after at the minute.
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