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Head First C#
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Head First C#

by Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene
November 2007
Beginner content levelBeginner
778 pages
19h 27m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Andrew Stellman, despite being raised a New Yorker, has lived in Pittsburgh twice. The first time was when he graduated from Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science, and then again when he and Jenny were starting their consulting business and writing their first book for O’Reilly.

When he moved back to his hometown, his first job after college was as a programmer at EMI-Capitol Records—which actually made sense, since he went to LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and the Performing Arts to study cello and jazz bass guitar. He and Jenny first worked together at that same financial software company, where he was managing a team of programmers. He’s had the privilege of working with some pretty amazing programmers over the years, and likes to think that he’s learned a few things from them.

When he’s not writing books, Andrew keeps himself busy writing useless (but fun) software, playing music (but video games even more), studying taiji and aikido, having a girlfriend named Lisa, and owning a pomeranian.

Jennifer Greene studied philosophy in college but, like everyone else in the field, couldn’t find a job doing it. Luckily, she’s a great software tester, so she started out doing it at an online service, and that’s the first time she really got a good sense of what project management was.

She moved to New York in 1998 to test software at a financial software company. She managed ...

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