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Check out the in browser tutorial at http://dot.net

I think there's a lot of ways to answer this question. There's the "What do I need to become a developer" in general question and "How do I get started developing in .NET" question. I'm gonna attempt to quickly answer the latter (from my perspective of course).

• Figure out what type of application do you want to build. With .NET you can write Native Mobile apps for iOS or Android, web applications, desktop applications, videos, etc.
• Check out our docs at docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet
• Read code! This one is probably more generic across languages, but I always believe reading code is just as important as writing code. I regularly video Github to see what everyone else is up to.
• Get familiar with the tools. Visual Studio today is still the go to tool for most .NET developers. Find out everyone else is doing for debugging, app designs, etc
• Get involved in your local .NET community. There's nothing more valuable than getting community support.

A lot of the skills required are like any other platform or language (conditions, decision making, etc), but with .NET you have a few additional options that will require separate skills:

This is just a very short list of possibilities:

• Language: Object oriented C# or VB.NET, or functional F#
• Platform: Web/ASP.NET), IoT, Desktop

In my experience, as someone who works mostly with C# with ASP.NET the skills that came in handy for me were:

• Understanding generics
• How object oriented programming applies to .NET
• Making good use of implicit variables
• General understanding of the ASP.NET web page lifecycle
• How to work with data in a .NET application (preventing sql injection with parameters, when a stored procedure would be better than building the query or statement, how to map application objects to data)