How to become .NET Developer?
Why to choose career in C# (.NET core)?
To pick career in any area is not easy thing, but you need to pick area like web Development, Game Development, Desktop application development, Mobile app Development or AI Development. And again it’s not easy to choose a language. There are many language like JAVA, C#, Python, etc. but among all the most versatile languages are JAVA and C#. Now, if it was before 4 or 5 years ago java was the best language around but not today. C# is so much improved in many ways that it is more powerful then java in my opinion. This is why I am writing this article what can be done with C# and framework like .Net Core for the career and future of technology.
Area you can pick:
Web Developer
To become web developer in .net at first you must know HTML for structuring of web pages, CSS for presentation of data written in HTML or XML and JavaScript for animations, proper interaction with user etc. These are the fundamentals of web developing.
Further we need to learn about following:
C#:
To become .NET Web developer you need to learn C# language. It will be fun to learn C# if you have basic knowledge of how computer programming works and C/C++ language. More than 80% web developer are using C# as programming language for Web development in .NET but there are also other languages like visual basic and F#. C# is backbone for entire .Net development in any field like Desktop development, script for games.
SQL:
SQL is a database which is used to manage data, images, text, session, registrations etc. You need to learn to use SQL Query for manipulation of data, presentation of data etc. Microsoft has developed Transact –SQL for better interaction with relational database.
.NET Core:
One of the best technology in .NET is .NET core. It is an Open source platform for general-purpose development, maintained and developed by Microsoft and .NET community. Features like cross platform, Consistent across architectures, command line tools, flexible, and open source.
Entity Framework:
Entity Framework is best open source Object Relation Mapping framework (ORM) for ADO.NET which is a part of .Net Core. Creating database connections and query execution, taking query results and materializing results as your application is handled by ORM. It also track of changes to the objects. ORM increases the productivity of developers by reducing unnecessary task.
ASP.NET core MVC Framework:
ASP.NET core MVC Framework is an open source, lightweight, highly testable presentation framework improved for ASP.NET core. It used Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern having different control functions and can use business controller for extra security of data. ASP.NET core MVC Framework uses Razor Pages which is a page based coding model for easier UI development. It contains built-in Dependency Injection and supports most popular JavaScript framework Angular, React and Aurelia.
It is also one of the best framework for building web app and APIs using MVC design pattern.
Mobile Developer
To become mobile developer you should know C# as it is the basic of app development. Of course you can use java for android, swift for IOS and for all C# can be used. Following tools can be used for developing cross platform app using C#/.NET.
Xamarin Native:
Xamarin is a cross platform tool for native development of Android and IOS. It has cross platform implementation of Common Language Implementation (CLI) and Common Language Specification also can be called Microsoft .NET. Developers can use Xamarin tools with the c sharp shared codebase to write Native Android and IOS with user native interface and can share codes in multiple platform. Its best to use Xamarin Native if you need your app size to be small, have a lot of animation and complex UI design and want to use native code required for multiple platform.
Xamarin.Forms:
Xamarin.Forms is the complete cross platform UI development tool kit for .NET developers. It allows developers to effectively create UI layout that can be shared in other platform like IOS and Android. You can create user interface faster, in low cost by using Xamarin.Forms tool using .NET core. Maintenance of app is comparatively faster due to shared codebase.
To be Mobile Developer you must have prior knowledge of android and IOS.
Desktop Developer
To become .NET Desktop app Developer C# is essential with basic programming concept, the concept of OOP, advance features delegates, attributes, events, reflections, asynchronous programming in C#. Furthermore you need to learn followings:
Windows Presentation Foundation:
It is the most powerful framework used by .NET developer for building line of business desktop application on windows with unified programming model provided by visual studio and has rich graphical user interface.
Xaml:
Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) is a declarative Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based language developed by Microsoft for initializing structured values and objects. It is applied to .NET core which simplifies creating the UI of .NET core based application. It is easier to understand if you know about XML.
Entity Framework:
Entity Framework is best open source Object Relation Mapping framework (ORM) for ADO.NET which is a part of .Net Core. Creating database connections and query execution, taking query results and materializing results as your application is handled by ORM. It also track of changes to the objects. ORM increases the productivity of developers by reducing unnecessary task.
Universal Windows Platform:
Universal Windows Platform (UWP) is one hero for windows development. App created in UWP can be used in any devices like IoTs, PCs, Mobile, Surface Hubs, HoloLens and Xbox. It uses API base that allows to cross device installations. You can use variety of languages like C++, Visual basic, C#, and JavaScript and for UI XAML, HTML or DirectX to build the app.
Game Developer
To become Game developer you should know C# as its script are written in C# by .NET developers. And you should have knowledge of computer graphics, animations using algorithms, pixels, motions, 2Ds type, 3Ds type concept.
Unity Interface:
Unity Interface is an IDE for 2D and 3D game development and is closely coupled with .NET and C# programming language. Game build on unity supports 25+ platform across various devices. Games develop Unity on Windows and MacOS can be debugged by using Visual Studio. You need to learn about interface, IDE controls shortcuts, game logics, user manuals which helps for developing game.
Scripting:
Scripting for Control game, amination, physics, motions are done using C# programming languages. Script allows trigger game events, modify the motions and other components over time and respond to as user inputs in any way you want. You can use many .NET languages with unity if they can complete compactible .DLL.
AI Developer
For being AI Developer you need to have knowledge what AI means and what it are the things u need to know before seeking career in AI. Most important things from which AI is build are:
1. Machine learning:
It is an application of artificial intelligence which is used for training data and learn automatically to improve the experience level for better results.
2. Deep learning:
It is used for the learning process of brain how actually human brain works with millions neurons and approach to learn like neurons.
3. Data Science:
It is used for Algorithm development, data analysis and technology in order to solve analytical problems.
4. Natural Language Processing:
It is a field of Computer science, engineering and interaction between human and computer language. It specifies how computer program process and analyze large amount of natural language data.
Microsoft has developed technologies to build intelligent DOT NET applications with features like sentiments and emotion detection, language understanding, vision and speech recognition, and search.
Some of them are:
ML.NET:
ML.NET is open source, cross platform and free machine learning framework made targeting .net developers. You can teach yourself basic of machine learning by developing and integrating custom machine learning models in your own applications. You can simply load your data and Automated ML tool will take care about your model building process. It is designed as extensible platform which you can extend with other ML framework like TensorFlow, Infer.NET, ONNX, and many more. It is proved to have highest accuracy and speed while training data set.
.NET for Apache Spark:
Apache Spark is used for analyzing large amount of data set mostly in terabytes or petabytes. It is a distributed general purpose processing engine used for batch processing, machine learning, real-time stream and ad-hoc query. Computation time is low due to distributed processing. You can use .NET core in Apache Spark for processing of data.
Cognitive Services:
You can use built-in features like sentiments and emotion detection, language understanding, vison and speech recognition, and search. These services can be used for enhancing .NET app like voice recognition system, face recognition lock and many more using built-in features.
Azure Machine Learning:
Azure Machine Learning is a cloud based service provided by Microsoft. Various machine learning features are built on it as we can drag and drop features for training data set or we can write manual codes for training data set. We can easily build, deploy and share analytical solutions. It accelerates end-to-end ML lifecycle, can access simplified ML, faster CI/CD support and can monitor performance easily.
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