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- Format: Color,
Digital Sound,
DVD-Video,
Full Screen,
NTSC
- Aspect Ratio(s): 1.33:1
- Rated: NR (Not Rated)
- Studio: D.V. Press
- DVD Release Date: June 10, 2004
- Run Time: 480 minutes
- Average Customer Review:
Based on
9
reviews.
- Amazon.com Sales Rank (DVD): 106428
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Product Description The 23 lessons in this eight-hour DVD collection aim to make you productive with C# .NET even if you have no prior .NET experience. Two introductory lessons on the .NET Framework and C# lead to eight more lessons that drill down on core C# programming techniques such as language fundamentals, type conversions, classes, objects, class interfaces, collections and events. Six additional lessons illustrate how to apply your C# .NET programming skills in Windows forms using menus and controls. The last eight lessons cover a broad spectrum of technologies including string manipulation, File IO, XML, ADO.NET, Web Services, Exceptions and ASP.NET Web Applications. DVDs may be played on any television or CPUs that have a DVD player. Each lesson begins with a review of essential concepts before moving on to a series of sample applications. The review of essential concepts equips you with the background to understand the sample solutions. The sample presentations demonstrate each solution’s operation as well as walk you through the code and setup steps that enable a sample to work. The two-DVD set delivers professionally edited videos that motivate you to learn. You also get the applications demonstrated in each lesson. This will permit you to run the samples on your computer and easily experiment with extending the solutions to grow your skills. The DVD set additionally delivers the complete slide deck for every lesson. This resource helps you to find and quickly review the content covered in each lesson.
Featured Customer Reviews  Sample Code unavailable, WYSIWYG,
August 11, 2007
Second, the code. There is none. Unless YOU type it yourself. Let me explain.
Apparantly, you were supposed to go to dvpress.com to get the sample codes and slides.
Well, there is no dvpress.com anymore, so if you use this DVD, be prepared to type a lot of code out by hand from the screen (which, by the way, doesn't always show all the code to copy, because it was made with the assumption you'd download it elsewhere).
I ended up using the "Print Screen" button a lot to save notes for later (by pasting them to MSPaint and saving) and ease the transcription of code, but when run on a PC the DVD will not scan using the drag bar. That's right, you can only jump from chapter to chapter, and cannot navigate in to specific spots, except by using the "Play Speed" enhancement. So get ready to spend a lot of time "fast forwarding" and "rewinding" using the play speed method so that you can take a snapshot of the code you were supposed to have been given on dvpress.com.
If anyone HAS the code and slides, how about making a review and posting a link to it. I would even volunteer some server space so I could get it myself. I don't think dvpress.com will mind since they apparantly ceased to exist long ago, and should have done this themselves anyway.
 Unacceptable and false advertised,
December 09, 2005
1. No source code.
2. Advertized website to get source code or practice material covered doesn't exist.
3. Teaching poor at best.
4. Odd ticks from an instructor that is unprepared throughout the presentation.
5. Video and sound quality terrible.
6. Missing content from what is advertized on the DVD. Very good for beginners; Harold talks slow; Missing advertised content,
October 23, 2005
This is a great introduction to C#. Harold's examples are clear and easy to follow. He also covers a wide variety of topics (see chapter list below).
Cons:
I would have initially given this video 4 stars except that Harold talks way too slow and there is missing content from what is advertised.
Harold talks so slow that I had to watch the video between 1.4 and 2 times as fast as the normal speed (can be done with many DVD softwares such as InterVideo). At this speed, though, the video was enjoyable.
Two of the lessons ("Manipulating Strings" and "Exceptions") were obviously truncated due to editing errors. Most "Manipulating Strings" is present, but "Exceptions" is 1 minute! As a result, this video is not 8 hours (as advertised), but instead about 7 hours.
Additionally, the back cover says that there will be a preview of Visual Studio .NET 2005 with a complete overview of generics. There is no mention of VS.NET 2005 or generics on the whole DVD.
The front cover says "Labs, Code & Slides" which could lead one to believe that the source code for the examples is available. The source code is not included. This is a DVD video with no other content.
Chapter Titles:
1: Introducing .Net
2: Visual Studio .Net
3: The Building Blocks
4: Putting It Together
5: Type Conversion
6: Classes and Objects
7: Class Interfaces
8: Arrays and Indexers
9: Collections
10: Events
11: Windows Forms
12: Building Forms
13: Form Interoperability
14: Working with Controls
15: More Controls
16: Adding Menus to Forms
17: Streams and Files
18: Working with XML
19: Working with ADO.Net
20. Manipulating Strings
21: Exceptions
22: Web Services
23: Web ApplicationsAnother view, between the extremes,
August 27, 2004 I recently purchased this DVD and thought I'd add my thoughts to the mix of reviews here. I must throw out an immediate disclaimer that I've only made it through about 5 of the lessons so far, as I just received the DVD a few days ago.
Yes, the sound quaity is fairly bad and the video quality is pretty mediocre. Neither of these were deal breakers for me, after the first few minutes I just sort of tune out the slight distortion of the audio. The price of this DVD is considerably cheaper than most other programming/C# material out there, so I was willing to cut it a little slack.
As to the lip licking thing being distracting that is mentioned by other reviewers, I guess this is a personal thing. It will bother some people and not others. Yes Mr. Davis does lick his lips or make unusual gestures every so often, but again - for me - I just tuned it out after the first couple of times.
I would also disagree with the statement that he cannot teach, or rather I think it's an overstatement. I do think that he covers some of the early material a bit too quickly and there are some inconsistancies and minor errors. (Again, I've only seen the first 5 lessons so far.) I think the main factor of this video's value will come from what the viewers level of experience with programming and their familiarity with object-oriented concepts. If you have any prior experience with programming, this is a useful DVD (and again, especially at this price). If you do not have prior experience, this will be a pretty steep learning curve. I would suggest reading something like Jesse Liberty's "Learning C#" from O'Reilly for those who are really new to programming and/or OO programming in particular.
Overall, I'll go with 3 stars since there is some good material at a price lower than many books, but only 3 because more depth in some areas would be better and the video and especially audio do leave a lot to be desired.This DVD is a Joke! *Warning*,
July 29, 2004 I was stupid enough to ignore the other 1 star review and bought this DVD anyway. It is very poor quality the instructor CAN NOT teach, and its true his lip licking is VERY anoying and the audio and video is very poor quality. I've never felt the need to write a review but this DVD was so bad I just had to let people know!!
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