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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN: 9780596003159
ISBN: 0596003153
Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 216
Publication Date: January 25, 2002
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Sales Rank: 575933
Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Rating:  - Not for beginners
If you didn't see the list of topics this book covers, then I suggest reading it before continuing on with the purchase. This book is not for beginners. It's a jump into the deep end of C#, with only a brief look at the basic differences/advantages of C# over Java and C++.
Class-based programming is nothing new. However, class-based component orientation programming is a more robust, extensible concept. My favorite aspect of C# is the near-elimination of pointers, and the headache ... Read More
Rating:  - The best first C# book I know of.
I have been writing in C# for over 4 years now. This was my first C# book, and the one I have used the most. Though I have several other, substantially longer C# books, this is the one I go to first. It's odd. When I can't find something I need to know in this book, I often can't find it in the larger books either. Despite the others having significantly more pages, they don't seem to provide me that much more information. One review I read mentioned the book is concise, and that is its greatest ... Read More
Rating:  - Complete Waste of Money; Look Elsewhere
Although I have MCSD and MCDBA credentials, I found this book to be so brief that it is all but useless. Throughout the book, arcane topics (e.g. event accessors, attribute classes, position to member operator, the IClonable inerface, the IFormatable interface, etc.) are introduced with absolutely no hint of what they might be used for. I suppose if you know what all this stuff is already, but need to refresh your memory, the book might be OK. But for anyone who is trying to learn C#, look elsewhere.
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Rating: - Short and to the Point
Cruising through book stores, I usually encounter the 800 page behemoths that 'teach you programming in 24 hours' or something similar. I suppose those are good for getting you programming with lots of examples.
However, I like to think I'm a pretty good programmer, having grown up with Pascal, C, and C++. I may be aging myself with that first one, but anyway.
I had thought C# was a toy language, ranking right up there with VB. That was until I encountered a powerful .NET financial ... Read More
Rating: - Great Book!!
This is the first book I read when I began working with C#. It gave me the quick introduction to the language I needed to hit the ground running with C#. To this day I still remember turning to it when I needed to learn about indexers!
I have since moved off into the asp.net world (which this book doesn't cover) but I still find it fun to read. This book should be the standard for developers new to C#.
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