Hour of Code

Microsoft has recently announced an event that would take place at its peak from December 8 to 12 and the name of that event is "Hour of Code" or HoC. The event will engage more and more people to get involved in coding regardless of any age limit. 

To all the representatives of Microsoft in their respective universities, this is a great opportunity to promote coding and programming in a very easy way to the students who are willing to comply with computer sciences and programming.

The details for the event are on the link:

Hour of Code

Start Learning

Learning is the only way you can prove that you can do something. If i tell you about myself, i believe in that statement. How? Because i have intention to learn and to learn something that would help me in working with its application. But the question is, from where i should learn the technologies that i want to work on? Since, i am more focused on technologies by Microsoft, so i would only reference my links related to them. The one link that i am going to share here is going to be your first priority to dig into it and start learning by yourself. Who would be your teachers? Yes! Your teachers would be Microsoft Valuable Partners or MVPs for different technologies. Just enroll your self and start learning and practice too. Click on the link below.


Microsoft Virtual Academy

How i learned?

I would like to share few of things that i did when i first started learning coding for different Microsoft technologies. I started by website development i.e. its interface designing and development. I started by learning HTML 5 and CSS. I practiced both of these languages and made many freelance websites just for fun and that really helped me to polish my skills in HTML 5 and CSS. 

I never really liked server side languages and scripting but i had to practice them and started by learning JavaScript. It is easy but kind of complex due to server side requirements. I practiced it also. I tried to become a master in it but i do not think i am! :P

So, i was good at HTML 5, CSS and not so enough in JavaScript.Now it was turn to go ahead and i chose C# to develop web applications and windows applications. I practiced on ASP.NET and code so applications and some of them were successful. In C#, you will be able to know about the core-concepts about the Object Oriented Programming. You will be able to familiarize yourself to Visual Studio. So i practiced a lot on Visual Studio and i found it really great.

What have i done? HTML 5, CSS, JavaScript, C# (ASP.NET). Now to build a dynamic application and responsive application, you need to get your hands on database. For Windows based application, SQLServer is used as a tool and the query language, none other than SQL. So i practiced that too. I learned queries. I learned about different scenarios of databases. 

So at last, i have bunch of skills in my head and where did i get these knowledge. Here are the links:

www.w3schools.com

www.html.net

Lectures from Lynda Essential Training
Lectures from Channel9

Welcome to my blog

I welcome you all to my blog. Let me first introduce myself. I am Naqash Ahmed from Karachi Pakistan. An undergraduate student of Bachelors in Computer Sciences. I am currently working as a Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) for Microsoft Pakistan.

This blog is for all those who have the spark in them for exploring new technologies specifically of Microsoft. By technologies, i meant the web tools, desktop tools, programming languages (C#, .NET Framework etc.), gadgets and other innovations by Microsoft.

In this blog, i am going to share all my knowledge regarding Microsoft technologies and i expect my readers to consider those technologies and try to work on them. I will try to make my readers understand the core technologies of Microsoft as well as the futures outcomes by Microsoft. This blog is going to help you a lot for getting familiarized with the technologies by Microsoft.


I hope my readers will not get bored here. I will sharing lots of cool stuff regarding technologies by Microsoft. Thank You. Have a good day.