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Career Change |
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Languages and technologies |
| Date Posted: |
11/06/2002 |
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IT is pretty slow now from what I can see, but you can take night classes and get more involved in the technical side of projects to sharpen your IT skills.
Databases are always good to know (high end design, or Entity-relationship modelling). Unix/Linux also. Java and C are good languages to know. It's hard to say what will be "hot" 5 years from now but these technologies have been around for a while and don't seem to be going away anytime soon.
Good luck -og |
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Right now I'd say Java or Visual Basic, but that is the very least of it. There are a lot of C experts and not that much development in C any more. Though C remains a popular platform for many API's on third-party package software.
C and C++ are much more difficult to learn properly than Java is.
In Java I would recommend that you also learn part of the J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) platform. There are basically two specialties, client-side or server-side. Client side can be easier to get into. Learn how to build and deploy servelets and JSP's on the client-side. This means downloading Apache Jakarta Tomcat and learning how to drive it.
Server-side is more difficult and eclectic. Start with learning the three flavors of EJB (Enterprise Java Bean)(perhaps 4 flavors depending on how you count them). You can download BEA Weblogic 7.0 for a month's 'evaluation' copy. Keep at it. There is a lot to learn in that month. Get a book for Weblogic 7.0 specifically. Sams publishing has a 'Learn Weblogic 7.0 in 21 Days' title out, which I get tomorrow from Amazon.
Best of luck.
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