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If your work were going to pay for you to go and learn a programming language so you had some kind of technical knowledge that would help you with managing IT projects and potentially with moving up the career ladder within IT, what would you learn? Bearing in mind you only have some feeble HTML and CSS knowledge and have struggled to pick up anything else through lack of good teaching & understanding.
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Date: 2008-10-07 11:34 am (UTC)He suggested Visual Basic but that seems to tie me very much to Windows. I know Java is hard, so not that. I need to find out what else our developers use & therefore what might be useful for me in terms of working here (as well as being a transferable language for other workplaces), but I thought I'd ask the internet too, cos the internet is smart!
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Date: 2008-10-07 11:45 am (UTC)You can't go wrong with VB or Java, but neither is really terribly exciting, IMHO. (VB is pretty important though.) Is there a hardware/CISCO/infrastructure kind of track?
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Date: 2008-10-08 06:04 pm (UTC)It's not really a programming language, but I found that knowing how to use regular expressions really helped in an office environment. It's amazing how much time people spend copying and pasting unnecessarily.
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