 See larger picture | Learning C# 2005: Get Started with C# 2.0 and .NET Programming (2nd Edition)
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Jesse Liberty and Brian MacDonald
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Product Description If you're a novice programmer and you want to learn C#, there aren't many books that will guide you. Most C# books are written for experienced C++ and Java programmers. That's why Jesse Liberty, author of the best-selling books "Programming C#" and "Programming ASP.NET," has written an entry-level guide to C#. 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 onyour way to mastering the essentials of the C# language.
Featured Customer Reviews  A Perfect Starting Point for OO,
October 31, 2008
Note that this review is for this edition of the book, but newer editions have since been released. I still recommend the book, and its approach, to anyone new to OO in general or C# in particular. Get started here, then dig deeper with the Bible-sized tomes if you need. Not as good as I expected...,
September 18, 2008Excellent book,
June 13, 2008 This is an excellent book on C#. I use it as a reference all the time for my ASP.NET dev. It's almost as big as the Learning C# book by the same author. Overly complicated examples,
March 30, 2008
I felt it necessary to write this review after encountering many instances online and in print of people suggesting this title, and my adivce to someone about to purchase this book is to shop around. There are better alternatives than this mediocre book. I especially encourage you to look at Schildt's book if you are new to C#. Charles Petzold even has a free C# 2.0 book (pfd) on his website that does a decent job explaining the .NET framework.Not Simply for Novices...,
December 09, 2007 This is a tough book to review because it addresses very remedial concepts in the C# language, as if being directed at new comers to the language, but the authors address these topics at a very high level, as if conversing with computer scientists. I believe this book will only appeal to the type of newcomer who's willing to wade thru the murky waters of remedial language theory; one who's not anxious to plunge into the deep end of quickly writing your own programs.
I am a business owner who programs fairly in depth VBA programs for use in my own company, mostly in MS Access. I've studied Python and programmed some console applications, as well as remedial programs in wxPython. I have some anecdotal knowledge of ASP.net, Actionscript and some other tools. My goal is to write my Access applications with a more robust toolset (enter C#). So I'm plagued with an ambivolence of wanting to learn from the ground up but finding overly remedial or theoretical examples mind-numbing and inapplicable.
I think this book falls into that category: too theoretical and remedial, even for newbies. I'm striking immediate paydirt with the O'Rielly book C# 3.0 in a Nutshell by Albahari. This book is also based on the newer version of C#. Albahari's book is very dense and terse, which for me is good--it doesn't dwell on concepts but gives you strictly the meat and bone with a spartan example. Allowing you to immediately grasp the fact and move on. Liberty's book (C#2005) dwells on and on with a topic and frequently spends a great deal of energy on topics of very low importance--Arrays are given an entire chapter (though not addressed until Chapter 10, half way thru the book). Yet arrays are, even by the authors' admission, the "least flexible of the five standard collection" objects. But the other 4 get short shrift in the 14th chapter on Generics.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's a good book. I'm just not sure how to use it, since I'm not going to get a CS degree and I will never write a console application (which is virtually the only kind in this book). I couldn't easily understand the examples given for class inheritance, though I came to the book with a clear understanding of it. On the other hand, the Albahari book had clear and concise examples by page 14.
Again, I'm not trying to knock the Liberty book. Only trying to give my experience of it, for those who might describe their programming experience or focus as I do: I'm not truly a newbie; I undertand OOPs and have some skill with other, albeit simpler, languages; I want to program specific applications now; I have a limited tolerance for long theoretical explorations on the language. If you're like me, you might find more lean-meat in C# 3.0 in a Nutshell by Albahari.
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