Alex, Congratulations on landing a great opportunity for what sounds like a wonderful company ! Most companies wouldn't be willing to give a candidate the opportunity to demonstrate his abilities at all.
If you wish to demonstrate your learning ability, you must first analyse yourself and detemine how you learn best. Is it by reading books? Articles? Watching tutorial videos? Or simply jumping in and writing code? You have not mentioned the version of ASP.NET that you are required to learn, so I assume it to be atleast v. 2.0. Assuming that you learn well enough from books and other online resources, my advice would be as follows... Note that since your immediate aim is to attain only a basic level of familiarity with ASP.NET, none of the following items in the list are intended for intermediate or advanced developers. Since your time in hand is very limited, I suggest you start immediately without wasting any more time. 1. Download and install the free version of Visual Studio (Visual Web Developer - http://www.microsoft.com/express/vwd/). There is a 2005 version also somewhere linked from that page. 2. The first place to start if you're a complete newbie to web development is www.w3schools.com. I assume you are familiar with HTML/ XHTML/XML, but even if you aren't they have a tutorial on that too. After you've understood how websites work, go on to the ASP.NET tutorial (http://www.w3schools.com/aspnet/default.asp). Don't spend more a day or two on this. 3. If you learn better by reading books, read one of the thousands of introductory books on ASP.NET (a Teach-yourself-in-21-days wouldn't be a bad idea in this case, as long as you complete the book in a week). Make sure that the level of the book is Beginner only and the book assumes no prior web development experience. OR 3. If you learn well via online resources, check out the following tutorial sites in the given order: (Try out the sample code and create a few sample websites/pages.) a) http://www.functionx.com/aspnet/index.htm - Great illustrated tutorials on most subjects - Simple enough for toddlers to understand! b) http://www.asp.net/learn/videos/#beginners - Lots of introductory videos from the ASP.NET official site. c) http://www.maconstateit.net/tutorials/ASPNET20/default.htm - Excellent tutorials written by David Adams which get you up to speed with the latest and greatest features of ASP.NET 2.0. d) http://quickstarts.asp.net/QuickStartv20/default.aspx - The ASP.NET quickstarts are one of the most comprehensive resources, but aren't really starter material. They are sufficiently advanced in content to make newbies shiver. e) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/asp.net/aa336567.aspx - The ASP.NET developer center provides links to great resources and tutorials. 4. At all times keep your time frame in mind and don't dwell on any single item or programming problem too long. Feel free to get back to us if you need assistance with a particular problem. I wish you luck in your endeavour! Regards, -- Cerebrus. On Mar 27, 9:05 pm, Alex Y Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > Well... I think ASP.NET is just a random choice, perhaps they don't > want me to do anything with ASP.NET in the future. It's just a test of > research ability. What shall I be looking at? Low level > infrastructure? Building websites? Ajax? .Net Framework? I'm totally > lost. Please help!!! > > Alex > > On Mar 27, 11:31 pm, KeidrickP <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Me to Mike! > > Alex tell them you need some training for ASP.net, and you will be a shoe > > in!! > > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Mike Fry <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Alex Y Wang wrote: > > > >> Hi all, I'm currently applying for a developer position in a global > > >> software company. However, the company doesn't seem sure about my > > >> learning ability, so I'm in this somewhat awkward situation where they > > >> require me to prove my learning ability in two weeks! The subject is > > >> ASP.NET, any particular direction would be fine, the deeper, the > > >> better. I've got a master's degree in CS but haven't done anything in > > >> ASP.NET or web programming. Could anyone give me some suggestions on > > >> what aspect I should be digging in within this amount of time? Thanks > > >> a looooot!!! > > > > Where's the job? Perhaps I should apply for it :-) > > > > -- > > > Regards, > > > Mike Fry > > > Johannesburg.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
