Ryan Hickman wrote: Just wondering which out of these programming languages will take the most time and difficulty to learn
Also any pointers as to a chronological order where to start would be beneficial. Right now I am starting with Java SE then moving onto J2EE
Ryan Hickman wrote: am trying to learn all of the above within one year to land an internship. Which is why I am curious if it is possible.
Ryan Hickman wrote:How long do you guys think it would take to get adequate enough to land a job concerning those languages? Or even an internship?
Ryan Hickman wrote:Which is why I am curious if it is possible.
Bear Bibeault wrote:That depends on what you mean by "learn". There is no one single technology on that list that I imagine can be mastered within a year.
Ryan Hickman wrote:This is the internship I am looking at:
Java/J2EE (Object Oriented)
.NET (ASP, C#)
COBOL
PL/I
HTML, JSP, JSF
IMS/DBDC
JCL
Websphere
SQL
I just switched my major to Computer Science with an emphasis on programming and am trying to learn all of the above within one year to land an internship.
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Ryan Hickman wrote:This is the internship I am looking at:
Java/J2EE (Object Oriented)
.NET (ASP, C#)
COBOL
PL/I
HTML, JSP, JSF
IMS/DBDC
JCL
Websphere
SQL
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Ryan Hickman wrote:Ok. Well what is a reasonable time frame to get myself an internship, foot in the door, or a job even?
I'd say that XML could be mastered within a week, if you understood the underlying concepts and if "XML" just meant the markup language and nothing else.
Jimmy Clark wrote:
I'd say that XML could be mastered within a week, if you understood the underlying concepts and if "XML" just meant the markup language and nothing else.
The eXtensible Markup Language is a meta-"format" for creating markup languages. XML is not a markup language itself and was not properly named. That said, the design skills needed to effectively create XML-based markup languages which are efficient and supportive of related processing technologies cannot be "mastered" in one week, in my opinion.
Jimmy Clark wrote:Aside, knowledge of COBOL, the ability to write, read, modify COBOL programs is an EXTREMELY valuable skill...and is very rare.
Bear Bibeault wrote:While that may be true, I'd still think that it'd take more than a week to learn how to parse XML in Java for someone who doesn't yet know the difference between a programming language and an application server.
Jimmy Clark wrote:XML-based languages can be significantly complex, DocBook or Financial products Markup Language (FpML) for example. Understanding what XML is in terms of a specific vocabulary and having the knowledge, skills and abilities to develop XML processing code are not the same thing. Neither one of them can be "mastered" in one week, in my opinion.
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Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:As another spin on this: is the company really asking for both Java and C#. Most people don't work on both at the same time. And expecting it from an entry level candidate is excessive in my mind.