Originally Posted by soCo

VB...yuck! haha.

Some newer technologies that I think would be good to learn would be:

WPF/WCF
anything Web 2.0 (I know, I know, it's really just a buzz word) like JQuery/Prototype pretty much anything using AJAX.
Python

Web Development can be a very good industry to get into, you just need to get into a Software as a Service project and get away from Web DESIGN jobs.

Honestly, without Web Development I would never of learned enough to get into the software side of things. The job I start in July will be my first Software job.

I've had three internships during college, one doing asp.NET/c# and SOAP web services, the other was just a html/css internship - it was easy money, the third was another web app using Ruby on Rails and REST. Without the first and third internship I think I would be lost as a programmer...Penn States IST program is more for networking and project management - not really development.