Hello fellow I.T pros.

Tried Googling this but didn't find much at all, but I'm sure it's quite common.

I'm an I.T Tech, and I enjoy it, but not as much as I've found I enjoy developing. That plus my role seems to be getting phased out by the cloud and virtualisation, I'm going for a career change, to:

C#/ASP.NET developer, with knowledge of SQL, HTML+CSS and hopefully JS.

I've already started learning C#, can't wait to eventually develop my own business critical projects and shove that down the MD's stupid throat.

Has anyone else made the move from the support/network/sysadmin side of things to dev?

If so, how did they do it? Proper training? In your own time?

I've just got lots of e-books, loads of helpful web content and know a couple of pros I can go to for answers (p.s you may see some 'Help!' threads in here soon lol).

Been studying IT for 5 and a half years. Actually liked web and software development at some point, but now coming up to the end of the uni degree I'm not so sure.

RaulCarnahan said:

Been studying IT for 5 and a half years. Actually liked web and software development at some point, but now coming up to the end of the uni degree I'm not so sure.

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Really? Why not?

I'm thinking it'll be the future (SaaS, hosted services, web apps).

I love giving people solutions as well. My lack of knowledge meant I was using MOSS as a way of doing this, but the limitations are severe.

Too much paperwork. I don't write the reports easily and it turned out mostly to be:
Make/develop something (which I like doing) 2% of the time and research and write a report (which I hate) for 98% of the time.

And yeah web is the future since everything is going cloud based and web apped. Also the android, iPhone and such apps will become obsolete as a general webb app way is being developed so one app can be created that works on all mobile devices.

No paperwork in.real world, not enough.time. Execs only care about results, not how you achieved them.

I am only to find out as I start my first IT job next monday

Nice! What as?

my recommendation would be to really study up on object orientated design as a whole not just a specific language, by all means use C# to practice etc but really get the concept of it

proper good design is what will make you stand out from other programmers.

plus it is a skill that can be used with any OO language

Hey jipo, yes that's the hardest part, for me anyway and something the books tend to avoid, from what I've read so far anyway. Got any recommendations? Be greatly appreciated.

Magic Johnson said:

Hey jipo, yes that's the hardest part, for me anyway and something the books tend to avoid, from what I've read so far anyway. Got any recommendations? Be greatly appreciated.

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yeah its what i find difficult as well, i just looked at the recommended reading list for my module but nothing solid on object orientation.

in my experience it is a skill that is acquired not learnt and it just comes down to practice mostly

Magic Johnson said:

Nice! What as?

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HP dialogue developer, nothing special but its a start.

Magic Johnson said:

I'm an I.T Tech, and I enjoy it, but not as much as I've found I enjoy developing. That plus my role seems to be getting phased out by the cloud and virtualisation, I'm going for a career change, to:

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I wouldn't be so sure, there will be less 'low level' jobs for sure but at the end of the day hardware ill always need maintaining.

I'm heading down the networking route as well as admin. Done my Cisco Voice qual .

I'd like a job in a Data Centre :slayer:

Cool, good luck Raul!

Chris, the hardware will be basic, VDIs are getting more and more popular, for an SMB that has an IT manager and 1 or 2 techs, all management will see is:

Well, we don't have 15 servers, we've only got 3 now so why do we need 2 IT?

etc.

Started my OOP studying today...nightmare!

Had a thought is oop really necessary for designing Web forms?

Magic Johnson said:

Had a thought is oop really necessary for designing Web forms?

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not really if your just gathering data

It may be more complicated than that in the future...hmm.

Still find the principal itself quite fascinating...like a science almost.

Magic Johnson said:

It may be more complicated than that in the future...hmm.

Still find the principal itself quite fascinating...like a science almost.

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And much like any Science, as you go further into it, the difficulty grows exponentially, as I am still finding out :bang:

Lol yes! I've spent the last 45 mins trying to get my head around association, aggregation and composition.

As it stands I'm struggling to see how I would implement this in to code but I have only done very basic coding so far. Think this will make coding easier to do once I get round to it though.

gotta love learning on work time lol.

Magic Johnson said:

gotta love learning on work time lol.

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Almost as much as you gotta love FF on work time?

Yes.

gotta love smartphones.