Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2768 EAN: 9780735619098 ISBN: 0735619093 Label: Microsoft Press Manufacturer: Microsoft Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 672 Publication Date: April 16, 2003 Publisher: Microsoft Press Sales Rank: 395305 Studio: Microsoft Press
Product DescriptionTeach yourself Visual C# .NET version 2003#151;and start developing Microsoft .NET-connected applications#151;one step at a time. Master language fundamentals at your own pace and use the learn-by-doing exercises to dig in and code!
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Rating: - Close but no wee-oh
This book does, indeed, take you through C# step by step. It does a farly good job of introducing concepts and showing them in action. Usually by opening a file and entering the code. My biggest complaint about this book and the vast majority of other programming books that I've encountered is the lack of exercises. It's all well and good to demonstrate a while statement and the data types but just saying, "Type in the following lines", doesn't teach you to write a program.
Rating: - It's a pretty good book for beginner who has some programming experience
this is pretty good book for a beginner who has some programming experience and wish to learn C#. i have read some of the comments such as "Definitely Not For Beginners". i would like to say, probably the reader doesn't know how to program at all. the example is easy to follow. i have to admit that i didn't test on all the sample code from CD, but with the thorough elaboration learned from the book, it's enough for me to write my own testing code. For example, there is some topic about ArrayList ... Read More
Rating: - lackluster (not step by step) or for beginners
It starts out in the first ten chapters explaining the concepts pretty well, and then it turns into an example-fest without any consideration for its namesake ("step by step"). All the examples are incomplete using "..." to signify previously exampled code. Its like a freaking jigsaw puzzle (especially CH 15) unless you have a laptop and are following the source from the cd), but why must you use both? The book itself should be self-contained.
I read some other reviews and felt the same criticisms ... Read More
Rating: - Visual C# .Net
One of the best book I have seen on the subject for people new to C# .Net, but know some other language.
Rating: - Not in depth enough
Coming from a VB background I chose two books to step up to C#. The first was Charles Petzolds excellent book, programming in the key of C#. My second book was this one. While this fills in many holes left out of Petzolds book, (mainly to do with the .NET framework & the .NET IDE, since Petzold deals purely with the C# language) it does so at the expense of clarity & in depth explanations as to `why' we do certain things. Often this book uses explanations dealing with as yet explained methods or objects, ... Read More
- Close but no wee-oh
- lackluster (not step by step) or for beginners
- Visual C# .Net
- Not in depth enough
