Experiences with Microsoft eLearning
I was browsing through Mirosoft training website and found that they offer quite a bunch of online courses. Does anyone have any experience with these? ...
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What is the best way to learn Silverlight?
I‘m planning on learn more about Silverlight by attending one of the following places. And from then (which I called/hope to be the foundation) I’ll have good solid background and information (I hope) about Silverlight. The question is, which one is good enough for me as new developer to Silverlight in terms of content and value. The fi...
How to train a team member to be the Xml Expert
Folks, I have got to work with a new team and design the required skills for each of them, I want to put a compressed training plan for one of them to be the Xml Expert in the team, as part of this I put him to read about XPath, XSLT from W3Schools, but what else he needs to know ? or is there a better source ? ...
Recommendations or discouragements on MCPD ASP.NET Developer v3.5 Boot Camps
I'm trying to do our training office's job and find a good training boot camp for the MCPD ASP.NET Developer v3.5 certification. I'm trying to find one that is in the US and includes the exams as part of the boot camp (leave the camp certified). I am finding a few, but was wondering if anyone has any recommendations or any "Definitely ...
Should I start with Unit testing when teaching a new developer?
I'm currently working on a project that is using technologies like Silverlight, WCF, EnterpriseLibrary, Unity, LinqToSql, NUnit, RhinoMocks in .Net 3.5 I'm training up a new developer who has some experience with VB script and SQL, but no exposure to .Net Almost 100% of the codebase has unit test coverage, but it just seems that gettin...
What are good online training outlets for development skills?
What are good online training outlets for development skills? Specifically, I'm looking for video tutorials, remote training, or anything that won't require me to travel to a training facility. Note: This is for development skills, which can range from abstract concepts like 'Building large, scalable systems' to 'Learning C# 3.0' ...
What topics for a training class?
We have a team of developers in India. I will be visiting them for a week at the end of the month. Part of my job while I'm there is to provide them with some training. I've been code reviewing them for almost 2 years so I have a few specific things that I'd like to coach them on. My question to the SO community is this: What genera...
How to train junior programmers in code review?
We're looking to start a code-review process for a group of ~30 coders who are all relatively junior programmers. What is your advice on how to train for code reviews? Are there code review pitfalls to be avoided? Essential things to look for? ...
visual c# training
Good Day I'm self training myself in visual c#, I need some advice in learning it as quickly as possible, Is there a good study-guide or book that I can purchase for ms visual c# ...
Best technology layer to start with
When I first started out in programming, the first technology I learned was C++. I got a little disheartened with it because I had to put in a lot of effort to get a rather crappy result. Once I learned PHP however, that quickly became my favourite language because I could get stuff to render on my web page straight away and get some co...
What programming books do you keep returning to?
Possible Duplicate: What are some of your oldest programming books that you still use? I was just listening to the SO podcast number 69 and Jeff and Joel finished up talking about "Code Complete" by Steve McConnell (sanitised Amazon link). Joel suggested that someone with ten years' experience who read the book would: agree wi...
What are some of the best video tutorials/online tutorials on Web Services?
I want to learn about Web services and so what are some of the best video tutorials / online tutorials which you prefer for understanding Web services and related topics? I have basic understanding of SOAP and REST but I want to get a lot of detailed understanding of the topic and so am looking for Video Tutorials / Online Tutorials for...
What are the best freely available university courses on Data Structures and Algorithms?
Hi, I am willing to learn in detail about Data Structures and Algorithms. What freely available university courses are there that cover data structures and algorithms? Thanks. ...
Good Training Sources for OOP PHP, Anyone ?
Hey Guys. I will like to see if everybody could share any good training sources on OOP on PHP language. Good Training Sources for OOP (Object Oriented Programming) PHP, anyone ? I've seen numerous tutorials, mostly superficial, some of them bad. Please share anything good either commercial or free, Video or Written. ...
Best learning algorithm to make a decision tree in java ?
I have a datasets with information like age, city, age of children, ... and a result (confirm, accept). To help modelisation of "workflow", I want to create automatically a decision tree based on previous datasets. I have take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_tree_learning and I know that the problem is clearly not obvio...
What are some best UNIX Online Tutorials/Books ?
Hi, I am new to Unix Operating System and my job involves mainly working with Unix Environment and so what are some of the best resources, online/books that one would recommend for Unix. Thanks. ...
Useful training courses that aren't specific to a single technology
I have possibly the best problem in the world. I have about £1600 left in a training budget and I need to find something to spend it on. I can spend it on anything that could be considered training. Books, courses, conferences, etc. I would like to find a course that would benifit a software developer but is not about learning a specifi...
Any reviews of O'Reilly School of Technology courses and/or certificates?
Has anyone had experience with O'Reilly School of Technology? I'm a new(er) front-end guy with 2.5 years of FT work under my belt and I have CSS/HTML down pat, and am looking to expand my JS knowledge, so I'm looking into the Client-Side Programming Certificate. Work would pay for it, so that's not a problem. However, if there are better...
How to use money to become a better programmer?
I want to be improving as a programmer. I take time outside of work or university to achieve that goal. Time alloted for that goal is limited though because I want to do other important things too. Naturally, I want to know how to make this time more effective. How can I use money at the problem of becoming a better programmer? Buying a...
Using nntool [MATLAB] from command line.
I have this code: in = [5 columns of data-points]; out = [1 column of data-points]; net = newfit(in,out,5); net = train(net,in,out); now I want to access the error variable that is generated (so that I can calculate the mean error etc.) run this in a loop, so I want to re-initialize weights between loops. access the variable that s...