Well it’s Friday again and in INDIA, where I am based at, it is almost Friday evening. So it’s that time of the week when all of us want to learn and do something new for the weekend.
I have been trying to wrap my head around ASP.NET MVC and bought a book last week title “ASP.NET MVC Quickly” from Packt Publishing. I went through whole book last weekend and when I finished the book I felt pretty confident of understanding the core concepts and thought I could start a small little project on Monday night.
My hopes were shattered though as soon as I start writing something meaningful in ASP.NET MVC. I constantly felt the need to know how to do this and how to do that. Even in simplest of tasks like Html.ActionLink, I was struggling to find how to pass values into the controller. I managed to do it by doing a quick google lookup but I realized that I am not ready.
Being a 1 person – startup, I didn’t want to invest a whole lot of time and energy into books and playing with samples. I wanted to write something meaningful even though I was learning.
My Objectives were :
- Learn MVC Quickly
- Start using it for something productive
- Spend reasonable amount. I set aside Rs.1000/month that is roughly $20 so I would have wanted to stay in that budget :)
I was aware of tekpub.com before, but this week I decided that enough is enough and I need to be learning and using these things almost yesterday.
So I finally signed up for monthly subscription of TekPub.com and watched first video. So far things are looking great.
I would personally suggest anyone interested in learning ASP.NET MVC should sign up for that course ASAP. Get rid of your lizard brain :)
Ok, I will post my views after going through the videos a bit more.
So far I had 2 minor complains :
- Speed of video stream is terrible. I know it’s not my internet because I am able to watch other sites just fine. I would suggest they should use Amazon Cloud front or similar
- Not being able to download videos :(. In monthly subscription they don’t give downloads. In poor bandwidth country like INDIA, I would have appreciated it.
That's it, I will post more of my findings next week :)
