For Jan term I am taking CS 301, or "Web Application Development".
I'm currently a Freshmen who has only completed CS 171, Or the C++ language up to the *basics* of arrays, classes, and objects.
There are two tracks for the current class I am in. Because we get a lot of kids taking the class that aren't in the CS department, they split the class between ASP.NET and Flash MX, depending on programming experience and what each student desires to learn.
My question for the Mac community is, WHAT is ASP.NET?! I've been around the block as far as nerds go, but haven't ever heard of ASP.NET, and after my Profs short description, I feel I should have. Is it a Windows proprietary scripting language? Is it possible to write ASP.NET code on my Powerbook? I survived C++ on my Laptop fine, in fact I was one of the only students that had an IDE environment on his computer (*kisses xCode*). Now I am unsure of which track to take. I'm positive that ASP.NET will serve my future carriers better, but I'm taking this class so I can learn a skill that can be used NOW, not later. And let's face it, if I can't use ASP.NET on my Apple computer, I'm probably not going to go to the labs and spend my ha ha "free time" fiddling with ASP.NET, Flash MX is far more likely as that is something I have invested in, and have some experience in.
Any Apple folks out there want to give an opinion?
Thanks in Advance guys
-Tyler
PS
Of course I could ask my profesor what he thinks, but he retired from Microsoft, so I'm not so sure he's gonna know jack. He didn't even list Safari under "tabbed browsers" in his huge list of browsers, though he himself uses FireFox, so maybe he isn't completely evil.
I'm currently a Freshmen who has only completed CS 171, Or the C++ language up to the *basics* of arrays, classes, and objects.
There are two tracks for the current class I am in. Because we get a lot of kids taking the class that aren't in the CS department, they split the class between ASP.NET and Flash MX, depending on programming experience and what each student desires to learn.
My question for the Mac community is, WHAT is ASP.NET?! I've been around the block as far as nerds go, but haven't ever heard of ASP.NET, and after my Profs short description, I feel I should have. Is it a Windows proprietary scripting language? Is it possible to write ASP.NET code on my Powerbook? I survived C++ on my Laptop fine, in fact I was one of the only students that had an IDE environment on his computer (*kisses xCode*). Now I am unsure of which track to take. I'm positive that ASP.NET will serve my future carriers better, but I'm taking this class so I can learn a skill that can be used NOW, not later. And let's face it, if I can't use ASP.NET on my Apple computer, I'm probably not going to go to the labs and spend my ha ha "free time" fiddling with ASP.NET, Flash MX is far more likely as that is something I have invested in, and have some experience in.
Any Apple folks out there want to give an opinion?
Thanks in Advance guys
-Tyler
PS
Of course I could ask my profesor what he thinks, but he retired from Microsoft, so I'm not so sure he's gonna know jack. He didn't even list Safari under "tabbed browsers" in his huge list of browsers, though he himself uses FireFox, so maybe he isn't completely evil.