MVC 5 or MVC 6 for a MVC beginner

Question

I am a .net developer with 10+ years of experience however never got an opportunity to work with MVC or EF. As I am looking for other opportunities , i started looking in MVC 5 and other new technologies/frameworks. I got my fundamentals however with recent release of MVC 6 , am confused now to learn what. It seems MVC 6 is a lot different fundamentally as System.web,httpcontext,global.asax and lot other places are changed in MVC 6. I am planning to get a book or Pluralsight subscription and study MVC in more detail with some lab and hands on practice. Do you guys think i should do it with MVC 5 and when MVC 6 is released it will be on top of it or start with MVC 6 directly to avoid any confusion . Your help is appreciated.

Any website/books suggestion ?

Edit- It seems MVC 5 is way to go . Any other technology along with it which goes together?

Solution

If you're just starting with ASP.NET MVC, MVC 5.0 will do as most of what you'll learn can be transferred to version 6 when it's released.

I would also recommend learning a front-end MVW framework such as AngularJS with ASP.NET WebAPI.

Most of the knowledge in learning the MVC pattern is transferable to AngularJS and you can use WebAPI as a back-end to build a robust API for your apps (which you can re-use later to take your applications to other platforms such as iOS or Android)

The asp.net website is a great place to start:

http://www.asp.net/web-api

http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/mvc-5/introduction/getting-started