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Check out Mono, it's a cross-platform .NET runtime. You'll have to give up your Windows-specific knowledge, but C# the language works fine.

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Also check MonoTouch and Monodevelop. Use C# and compile to Android and iOS.

Check out Python. You'll regret spending time with C#.

I wouldn't say Python would make you regret spending time with C#, in fact, his experience with a language like C# will be beneficial to his coding patterns.

Python is an awesome language, but don't mistake the fact that C# is also a very good language and often times a perfectly valid language to use.

Python's dynamicness is something you love and hate. Same goes for JavaScript (at least strict mode JS) in my experience. It's much nicer having the compiler tell you there's an undefined variable instead of the runtime.

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