I am wanting to learn .NET I have recently spoke with the IT guy from the company I work for, I told him about some of the languages I was interested in learning and he told me to that they typically code in .NET and recommended me to learn that language as it would help me to get a job as a programmer within the company. That being said this is a fortune 500 company and trash will not get me by and that is all I seem to be able to find so far, if anyone knows of any good sources to learn .NET I would greatly appreciate the help!
Since Microsoft is really the creator of .NET you should look up on Microsoft's website. .NET Includes generally 4 languages: C/C++/C#/VB (Visual Basic) but going into specifics learning a bit of PHP & MySQL will help you down the line as well. A good order to learn is Visual Basic -> C# -> C++ -> C (C can be confusing so you can choose this first if you want). https://www.microsoft.com/net will be the best place for you to start.
I'd almost recommend just going straight to c#, there is nothing in vb that will help you.. it'll probably just end up being a hinderance.. I dunno, I'm naturally biased against it because I wrote vb6 (pre .net stuff) and I hated it with a passion.
For asp stuff (writing websites in .net) go to http://asp.net/ it has quite a few useful videos and sample code
If you are serious about it you'll want to get a couple of pretty thick books, a .net framework reference and a general algorithim design book.. and maybe to get started a c# cook book, there are a few good ones that just have some commonly used patterns/practices that are industry standard.. this is the ms doc http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff921345.aspx
Thanks guys I really appreciate the help! Is C really still used? I am not really familiar with programming yet but from what I have read it seems that it is pretty outdated?
By the way I am currently learning HTML from www.codeacademy.com are you guys familiar with this website? Is this a good place to learn, so far it has been real simple and if you are not familiar with it they offer a box to code in with a results tab which works really well when learning being able to see if things are going as planned. I would like to know your thoughts about it if any.
yeah.. unless you are looking at getting into a specialised area of programming like writing drivers or firmware c really isn't of much use
check out https://www.khanacademy.org/cs they have some pretty fun lessons.. have only had a brief look but I like the teaching style, although I'm not sure if they have html (since it's a markup language rather than programming language), pretty sure it's more javascript
+1 for C++. I love it; when learned properly, it teaches you not only how to program in a powerful, versatile language, but instructs you on the way computers handle processes/functions. It doesn't 'shield' you from the real world of computers like C# does. That being said, C# is great for networking. And I would stay away from Visual Basic; too much Windows dependancy. C++ can be run on Mac, Linux, and Windows, depending on the code structure and compilation.