I found the article fairly accurate, being a .NET developer now for upwards of 15 years, but perhaps the title is misleading. I would have titled it, "Beginnin

I found the article fairly accurate, being a .NET developer now for upwards of 15 years, but perhaps the title is misleading. I would have titled it, "Beginning .NET for Professionals." Most of the concerns outlined in the article are really only relevant to professionals, or serious hobbyists. If you're truly a beginner most of those points are not concerns, at least until much later. If you want to learn .NET, download Visual Studio Community Edition, fire up a console application, and tinker. Starting with C# is probably a good idea. I did this with my sons, before there was a Community Edition, when they were about 11 and 8 - truly beginners. They had little problem getting going, writing small little programs to find primes or the lowest common denominator for a number. We didn't even cover OOP really, and the standard library only minimally. So it can be done, even today after .NET has exploded. It's just hard for us pros who now have to confront that enormity.