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John Sharp (Content Master)
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Pages: 656 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0735624305
Pub: MICROSOFT PRESS
Pub date: 2007-12-31
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 14464
Reader Reviews:
Excellent Intro to C# (6/6 people found this helpful)
I tried to learn C# a couple of years ago from another book by a different author. However, having done VB6 for soooooo long I found that this other book assumed you had come from a C++ background and were familiar with that world - which I was not. Result=unhappiness.
This book is far better for us VB diehards! On the assumption that you are really using Vis Studio 2008 (which means all the examples will match what you see on screen) I would have no hesitation in recommending this book as both a conversion course from VB6 or C++ to C# and also a pretty good intro to programming in general.
The book's pace is gentle and logical, and I am now over halfway through it and have not come up against any of the step-changes in pace and assumption that so often mar other programmers books which purport to be for beginners.
As with so many aspects of book learning, I also find this learning easy, because the author seems to be on my wavelength, none of the relentless "humour" which gets so tedious and intrusive in other books (especially the "For Dummies" series), but nevertheless there is a lightness of tone in the writing here which I find just right.
The book is split into easily digestible chapters, which means you can slot in your learning around real-life, and of course the supplied CD contains the full text of the book and all the example programs. This means you can take your learning on the road, if you are lucky enough to have a laptop - i.e. you don't need to haul the fairly sizable dead-tree product around with you.
So, as a VB6 programmer of many years who is trying to get to grips with one of the .Net languages, I have found this far and away the best book for me.
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