vijaytsr

I would recommend C. It will give you a better understanding of the concepts of programming. Gives you more control over what you can do.

But, as others have pointed, very easy to make mistakes

People at the "front-end" jobs (e.g. sales, marketing) tend to have the advantage here. Most tend to have wide interests, helping them bring a more balanced perspective to the table. All else being equal, education also counts.

I have found Crytponomicon and Snow Crash, both by Neal Stephenson, very good. Both fiction

I am not sure this meets your criterion. You can check out the CloudMunch Developer Edition (Link: http://www.cloudmunch.com/developers). Helps you deploy your projects from GitHub to AWS. You don't pay for the platform. You just pay for the AWS usage.

@nanijoe Thanks for the feedback. Will re-look at our value prop and the comment issue.

@nanijoe My response to your first comment

CloudMunch Developer edition (Beta) will currently provide you the following. Please note this is free to use. You will pay only for the AWS infrastructure you consume. 1. A history of your builds 2. A build repository to store older builds and deploy them if required 3. A deployment history 4. A template for build orchestration to perform code analysis, e.g. PMD, code visualization (TBA) 5. Scheduled deployments - on-click, daily or weekly 6. Seamless connection between GitHub and AWS using your GitHub id

We plan to add some features based on our thoughts and your feedback. I hope this answers your questions.

Thanks for the feedback. Will re-look at our value prop and the comment issue.

CloudMunch Developer edition (Beta) will currently provide you the following. Please note this is free to use. You will pay only for the AWS infrastructure you consume. 1. A history of your builds 2. A build repository to store older builds and deploy them if required 3. A deployment history 4. A template for build orchestration to perform code analysis, e.g. PMD, code visualization (TBA) 5. Scheduled deployments - on-click, daily or weekly 6. Seamless connection between GitHub and AWS using your GitHub id

  We plan to add some features based on our thoughts and your feedback. I hope this answers your questions.

The usual statement is that any IP you create on company time using company resources will belong to the company. Any IP you create on your own time will, likely, be outside the scope.

My first impression is that you are similar to 99designs. I believe you will be better off with an inbound marketing effort with proper targeting. Sales is resource and effort intensive. Lack of early results may be more demoralizing than inbound marketing.