Rating: - This little gem...
...is one of the best programming books I ever read.
This book is better than many famous C# books and I realized that only when I started to read it and went through the examples. From the outer look of the book (physical look) one can jump into conclusion about the quality of the book.
It gives you the feeling of control, and explains everything you need to know to tame the IDE beast, and to write console and WinForms applications without any help. Every sentence in this ... Read More
Rating: - Clear and Concise
I am about 2/3 of the way through the book, and I have done this in one sitting. It has some rough areas, such as the section on delegates, which I found a bit difficult to understand, but I imagine that if I go over those sections again it will be clear.
Tomorrow I go through the section on Visual Studio 2005. I have been using the free Visual Studio 2008 from the microsoft web site. So I am interested to see what the VS section has to offer in the book.
5 stars for a thoroughly painless ... Read More
Rating: - Finally, more than just building useless forms!
While trying to get my head around OOP and some of the concepts, I was really getting sick and tired of all of ridiculous "Step-By-Step" and other intro books that are out there. If I want to build a form with a textbox that says "Hello world!", it shouldn't take you 400 bloated pages to explain to me how to do it.
This book actually explains OOP in a workable and applicable way. Yes, the publisher did a disservice with color choices and the index (and yes, the typos) but this book is ... Read More
Rating: - Clearly written - C# finally clicked!
Coming from a strong classic VBScript background I've struggled with C# and the .NET platform. After reading through Jeffery's book, everything finally 'clicked' for me. I'd rate this book more for the beginner than anything else; if you're looking for advanced topics, look elsewhere.
The first half of the book has several walk-through's of basic C# syntax and moves into more intermediate walk-through's of working with Classes and an introduction into OO methodology. The second half of the ... Read More
Rating: - Don't waste your money
I don't say "don't waste your time" as I'm sure you won't spend too much of it on this book. I was foolish enough to read almost all of it, all the way hoping it would start getting serious.
Very poorly written. Lots of typos, the kind resulting in valid English words, just not the right words for the context. So, the text was definitely run through a spell-checker but I doubt any human professional editor was involved. A friend trying to tell you the plot of a play or a movie he liked, may ... Read More
- This little gem...
- Finally, more than just building useless forms!
- Don't waste your money
