Many books introduce C#, but if you don't have the time to read 1200 pages, Accelerated C# 2008 gives you everything you need to know about C# 2008 in a concentrated 500 pages of must-know information and best practices.
C# 2008 offers powerful new features, and Accelerated C# 2008 is the fastest path to mastery, for both experienced C# programmers moving to C# 2008 and programmers moving to C# from another object-oriented language.
You’ll quickly master C# syntax while learning how the CLR simplifies many programming tasks. You’ll also learn best practices that ensure your code will be efficient, reusable, and robust. Why spend months or years discovering the best ways to design and code C# when this book will show you how to do things the right way, right from the start?
Comprehensively and concisely explains both C# 2005 and C# 2008 features
Focuses on the language itself and on how to use C# 2008 proficiently for all .NET application development
Concentrates on how C# features work and how to best use them for robust, high–performance code.
What you’ll learn
How C# works with and exploits the CLR
How to use arrays, collections, and iterators
How to handle events with delegates and anonymous functions
How to design and use generic types and methods
How to thread efficiently and robustly
How to use the C# 2008 anonymous types, lamba expressions, and extension methods
Who is this book for?
If you’re an experienced C# programmer, you need to understand how C# has changed with C# 2008. If youre an experienced object–oriented programmer moving to C#, you want to ramp up quickly in the language while learning the latest features and techniques. In either case, this book is for you. The first three chapters succinctly present C# fundamentals, for those new to or reviewing C#. The rest of the book covers all the major C# features, in great detail, explaining how they work and how best to use them. Whatever your background or need, youll treasure this book for as long as you code in C# 2008.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Mediocre for advanced C# devs, good for intermediate
After reading the reviews praising this book, I had high expectations. While the author's prose is clearer than most, it suffers from the usual technical-author-verbosity. I found the overall content of the book lacking, while several sections were very well presented.
The author switches between beginning and intermediate C# topics throughout the text, which can be a bit jarring. For example, he spends about 3 pages introducing delegates before getting into meatier issues. I would ... Read More
Rating: - Step Up Your Skill A Notch With Accelerated C# 2008
This book briefly covers the basics and then shows more advanced ways of applying the basics to the problem at hand. I felt like reading this book was worth my time as I began to understand how a seasoned C# programmer thinks when solving a problem. Trey Nash is trying to impart tidbits of experience he has gained in the trenches of writing complex multi-threaded apps. He brings in a lot of object and pattern theory by showing both the "wrong" and "right" way to do something. This clearly shows ... Read More
Rating: - Decent Book, But the Audience is Wrong
Overall, this is a decent book. But, simply because the author didn't properly define his audience, I have to mark it down a notch. From the 1st sentence of the "About This Book" section in the Introduction (on page xxvi), the author states:
"I assume that you already have a working knowledge of some object-oriented programming language, such as C++, Java, or Visual Basic .NET."
So, I assumed that since I'd already learned C, C++, and Java, but just dabble in programming, ... Read More
Rating: - Pretty Good
This is a pretty good book. This author is obviously a strong C++ programmer or was for many years, so his approach to the writing about
C# is very C++ bias which I think is very refreshing and pretty neat, to compare the OLD way and the NEW way. Dont get me wrong I am not implying
C++ is dead, I think is still by far the strongest most powerfull language ever, i am just saying C# is more practical, more FOR NOW, for the 21th Century..............
I like many 1990s programmers started ... Read More
Rating: - C# for Real Developers
I bought this book last Wednesday and figured it would be a decent enough overview of the new language features. I don't want to downplay the job he does covering new langauge features becuase that coverage is superb, but the job he does covering C# fundamentals is so well done that it eclipses everything else.
So it's a great book for beginners? Well, probably not. I think beginners would benefit by it but it's not a beginners book by any mean. What I do mean is that he does a really in ... Read More
- Mediocre for advanced C# devs, good for intermediate
- Step Up Your Skill A Notch With Accelerated C# 2008
- Decent Book, But the Audience is Wrong
