Listen up

[DimPrawn]

You want to be part of the future of IT?

Then using DimPrawn's tried and tested research, these are the skills you want to be investing in.

Overall job market (for reference):

Total demand for Contractors:




Skills bucking the overall trend:


C#



ASP.NET




J2EE



SAP



Linux

[DimPrawn]

tulip You Don't Want To Be In:

Don't bother with these.


VB



Plain old C



VBScript



ASP



COBOL

[sasguru]

You forgot SAS. The graph for that looks like this, since 1976:


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[DimPrawn]

Yeah, but pretty low numbers (a bit of a shoot up recently )

[dang65]

Surely ASP, VBScript and VB have only plummeted in popularity because the name's been changed to ASP.NET. I know there's a few shortcuts and new features built into ASP.NET, but from the developer's point of view it's basically the same thing. You just have to learn a slightly different syntax here and there. When I say 'learn', I mean quickly flick through a book to look up the bit you're stuck on.

Still, as long as employers are convinced that ASP.NET is some amazingly complex new technology that only the most advanced and highly-paid developers can possibly get their heads round, while classic ASP and VB are so simple that that you can just get your ten-year-old nephew to do it for you, then I suppose the bluffers are quids in.

[NickIT]

argh!!! programmers!!! LOL

[DimPrawn]

If you really think ASP.NET is ASP renamed and .NET is some scripting language and that a quick flick through a book is all it takes, then you deserve to be on the bottom of the tulip pile.

[janey]

If you really think ASP.NET is ASP renamed and .NET is some scripting language and that a quick flick through a book is all it takes, then you deserve to be on the bottom of the tulip pile.

fight fight fight fight

[DimPrawn]

Bloodthirsty bint.

Anyone that slags .NET off will get a kicking.

[dang65]

I'm not slagging off .NET, just saying that from a developer's point of view it's just another coding syntax to get your head round. You just get the general idea then use a reference. Same goes for JavaScript, CSS, SQL etc etc.

In fact, everything I've read about ASP.NET stresses how much simpler it is to code with than old-style ASP because the big boys have already written all the hard stuff like validation and table layouts and you just have to call their ready-made functions. It's a bluffer's dream.