By Jesse Liberty, Brian MacDonald
Second Edition
February 2006
Pages: 552
ISBN 10: 0-596-10209-7 |
ISBN 13: 9780596102098
(Average of 1 Customer Reviews)
Completely revised to cover C# 2.0 and Visual Basic 2005, this introductory guide offers a thorough introduction to Microsoft's premier .NET language. Discover how to develop various kinds of web services and applications--including those that work with databases. More than 200 questions and programming exercises make mastering the essentials of the C# language easy and fun.
Full Description
Written in a warm and friendly manner, Learning C# assumes no prior programming experience, and provides a thorough introduction to Microsoft's premier .NET language. The book helps you build a solid foundation in .NET, and shows you how to apply your skills through the use of dozens of tested examples. You'll learn about the syntax and structure of the C# language, including operators, classes and interfaces, structs, arrays, and strings.
Better yet, this updated edition of Learning C# has been completely revised to include the latest additions to the C# language plus a variety of learning aids to help lock-in new knowledge and skills. Here's what's new:
- Extensive revisions to the text and examples to reflect C# 2005 and .NET 2.0 changes
- An introduction to Visual Studio 2005, the most popular tool for building Windows and web applications
- More than 200 questions and fully debugged programming exercises with solutions
- A greater emphasis on event handling
- New coverage of generics, generic collections, partial classes, anonymous methods and more.
By the time you've finished Learning C#, you'll be ready to move on to a more advanced programming guide that will help you create large-scale web and Windows applications.
Whether you have a little object-oriented programming experience or you are new to programming altogether, Learning C# will set you firmly on your way to mastering the essentials of the C# language.
Featured customer reviews
Good and Solid Book, October 22 2007
I've worked with VB .NET for about 2 years now and have recently decided to move to C#. By reading this book I was able to learn C# very well and easily. The book explains the necessary topics relating to C# very well. Also there are barely any typos in the book; there are some but not any significant ones.
The only issue I had was that on the more complex topics near the end of the book the examples contain lots of code and it makes it hard to understand. Obviously more code is necessary for the more complex topics, but they should try to cut down on some of it to make it more simplistic.
The exercises at the end of each chapter are very good. However, the author’s solutions often contain keywords and code that hasn't yet been explained in the book. So the author’s code is always more advanced than yours.
But, overall I think this IS a very good book and like every book it DOES have some bad spots. But they are bearable and you should have a solid understanding of C# after reading this book no matter what language you came from. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in learning C#.
Media reviews
"In typical O'Reilly fashion, tips, tricks, and things to watch out for are clearly identified in the text. But this book goes a step beyond and includes a quiz at the end of each chapter. This quiz covers the major points of the chapter and includes the correct answers at the end of the book. I thought this was an excellent step in helping programmers new to C# (or even .NET) an excellent way to test their skills and comprehension."
-- Mike George, Amazon.com
"This most excellent book focuses on the fundamentals of the C# programming language, both syntactical and semantic. More importantly, after mastering these concepts, you should be ready to move on to a more advanced programming guide that will help you create large-scale web and Windows applications."
-- John Vacca, Amazon.com
