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Re: The Little ASP.NET Core Book

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Post by ledgerdev »

maxxxxx wrote: post #14
AdeptusAquinas wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anders Hejlsberg for C# I guess? ASP.NET as a framework doesn't have any 'celebrity personalities' that I am aware of, but then it doesn't really need any. Its a good framework, especially with the dotnet core rewrite; you should try it! Put it on Docker and run it on Linux for fun :)

Has Hejlsberg ever written a book? He must have a lot of valuable insight to share. I think part of the success of C++ and C was that their developers are good writers. K&R is phenomenal and Stoustroup's book are excellent too.

Not a book, some great insights here.

https://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/anders+hejlsberg

Re: The Little ASP.NET Core Book

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Post by rdiddly »

The "little" part is appreciated, as I recall all too vividly learning ASP.NET by slogging through "Beginning ASP.NET" by Imar Spaanjaars. It's a good book, don't get me wrong, but its two biggest strengths (thoroughness and being good for beginners) result in its being 800 pages long!

Re: The Little ASP.NET Core Book

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Post by markdoubleyou »

UK-AL wrote: post #12
tw1010 wrote: post #3

C++ has John Carmack, PHP has Zuckerberg, Lisp has Paul Graham. Does anyone know of any good role models to look up to in the ASP.NET world? As childish as it might sound, that has honestly been a sticking point preventing me to be able to really get into all this.

Anders Hejlsberg Scott Hanselman But some interesting people to follow are Jimmy bogard, greg young, David Fowler.

Good list. I'd also add Marc Gravell and Stephen Cleary.

I've found that I rarely read Hanselman's stuff any more... he's great if you're playing around with bleeding-edge ASP.NET Core on Linux on Azure, but not if you're trying to dig into the guts of C#. (I was so burned by the so-called "release candidates" of ASP.NET Core that I stopped following that vein of blogger.)

Re: The Little ASP.NET Core Book

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Post by snomad »

tw1010 wrote: post #3

C++ has John Carmack, PHP has Zuckerberg, Lisp has Paul Graham. Does anyone know of any good role models to look up to in the ASP.NET world? As childish as it might sound, that has honestly been a sticking point preventing me to be able to really get into all this.

There are some really good talks on a wide variety of .net things at https://dotnetrocks.com/

For ASP, David Fowler without a doubt, also recommend Barry Dorans and Scott Sauber

Re: The Little ASP.NET Core Book

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Post by paulczy »

tw1010 wrote: post #3

C++ has John Carmack, PHP has Zuckerberg, Lisp has Paul Graham. Does anyone know of any good role models to look up to in the ASP.NET world? As childish as it might sound, that has honestly been a sticking point preventing me to be able to really get into all this.

This Twitter list was advertised a few days ago. https://twitter.com/spboyer/lists/cloud-developer-advocates

Re: The Little ASP.NET Core Book

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Post by Yhippa »

Thanks for the book! I really like your style and I think this is another great resource I'll get a lot out of.

One of my concerns about .NET core is it seems that there are a handful of ways to do things compared to Java. But I'm starting to like the fact that there are fewer options that work really well. Plus there are things like LINQ that I haven't seen used much elsewhere that blow my mind.

Re: The Little ASP.NET Core Book

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Post by burmask »

tw1010 wrote: post #3

C++ has John Carmack, PHP has Zuckerberg, Lisp has Paul Graham. Does anyone know of any good role models to look up to in the ASP.NET world? As childish as it might sound, that has honestly been a sticking point preventing me to be able to really get into all this.

Jeff Atwood of coding horror is also an asp.net advocate. Stack Overflow, written in asp.net, was designed by Jeff. https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar...

Re: The Little ASP.NET Core Book

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Post by nbarbettini »

Yhippa wrote: post #27

Thanks for the book! I really like your style and I think this is another great resource I'll get a lot out of. One of my concerns about .NET core is it seems that there are a handful of ways to do things compared to Java. But I'm starting to like the fact that there are fewer options that work really well. Plus there are things like LINQ that I haven't seen used much elsewhere that blow my mind.

LINQ and the async/await pattern are my two all-time favorite things about C#.

Re: The Little ASP.NET Core Book

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Post by nbarbettini »

ultrasounder wrote: post #19

Are new to programming Already code in a backend stack like Node, Python, Ruby, Go, or Java Are an ASP.NET MVC developer Consider me sold!. Have been watching .NET Core from the sidelines while I have been "teaching myself" Python. But being constantly on a Windoze systems there is so much more that one could with .net core. Thanks for putting this together.

I think it's a great time to jump into .NET Core if you've been on the sidelines. There was a lot of version pain early on, but it's way better now. Being able to write C# code on my Windows box that runs natively on my MacBook Pro feels awesome.
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