Data crunching in the key of C#

While searching for a job I have noticed that there are quite a few job openings involving the C# programming language and the .NET platform-- both from Microsoft. Thus, in the last couple of days I downloaded MS Visual C# 2005 Express and dove into Learning C# 2005.

So far, it's been pretty easy to pick up and I'm already on chapter five of nineteen. It helps quite a lot that I am familiar with C and C++ of which C# is a descendant of. I also have the Mono implementation of .Net on my iBook. It's kinda strange compiling and executing .exe files directly on a Mac....