Rating:  - Very Highly Recommended for Newbies to C# and OOP
I'm entirely new to object oriented programming; last time I programmed was in 1982 using the original C. The author does an excellent job in presenting this material to someone new to C# and object-oriented programming concepts. The challenge for authors is to balance how much material and detail to include; not enough and even a newbie will get bored; too much and you either loose the average reader or you force the determined reader to go back many, many times to try and parse out exactly the concept you are trying to teach. J. Liberty strikes an excellent balance in this book. At the end of each chapter are programming exercises to test the readers knowledge and all of the code used in the examples is on website.
I've already purchased a few of this authors other works on C# that cover various concepts in more detail and rigor.
Rating:  - An OOP C# primer
If you need to brush up on your Object-oriented programming skills in the context of learning C#, this is a great book. It doesn't go in-depth into data structures, but it will get you going right away, even if you've never had OOP experience.
Rating: - Great Beginners Book
With only a few months of OO programming about 6 years ago, I needed a book to take me from the beginning again. This book delivered. I found I have needed to read some chapters several times to 'get it', particularly chapters 7 & 8. I like the way he writes an example and then steps you through it, breaking down the code into sections. It was easy to read and easy to refer back to. I still have a couple of chapters to review and I'll be looking for more of his books.
Rating: - VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
Are you a programmer or novice programmer with little or no object-oriented programming experience? If you are, then this book is for you! Authors Jesse Liberty and Brian MacDonald, have done an outstanding job of writing a second edition of a primer on the C# 2005 language specifically, and object-oriented software development in general.
Liberty and Brian MacDonald, begin by introducing you to the C# language and the .NET platform. Then, the authors provide a guided tour of Visual Studio 2005--the tool you will use to build all the applications in the book. Next, they introduce the basic syntax and structure of the C# language, including the intrinsic types, variables, statements, and expressions. The authors then describe some of the symbols that cause C# to take action, such as assigning a value to a variable and arithmetically operating on values. They continue by showing you how to create programs that branch based on conditions that may change while the program is running. Then, the authors explain the principles behind object-oriented programming, including encapsulation, specialization and polymorphism. Next, they introduce the key concepts of programmer-defined types and instances of those types. The authors then delve into the specific programming instructions you'll write to define the behavior of objects. They continue by introducing the debugger integrated into the visual Studio 2005 Integrated Development Environment. They also introduce the array, an indexed collection of objects that are all the same type. Then the authors explore two of the key concepts behind object-oriented programming, inheritance and polymorphism, and demonstrate how you might implement them in your code. Next, they explain how to add standard operators to the types you define. The authors explain how you can define a set of behaviors that any number of classes might implement. Then, they explain generics and show you how generics are used to create type-safe and efficient collections. Next, the authors discuss the manipulation of strings of characters, the C# string class, and regular expression syntax. The authors then explain how to handle errors and abnormal conditions that may arise in relation to your programs through the use of exceptions. They continue by discussing how to write code to respond to programming occurrence like mouse clicks, key strokes, and other events, through the use of delegates and the event keyword. Then, the authors show you how to bring all of these skills to bear to create a Windows application. Finally, they show you how to apply the same skills to building a web application.
This most excellent book focuses on the fundamentals of the C# programming language, both syntactical and semantic. More importantly, after mastering these concepts, you should be ready to move on to a more advanced programming guide that will help you create large-scale web and Windows applications.
Rating:  - Not a beginner book! for novices!!
I am sorry but this book is not a novice or begiiner book on C#.
I purchased this book to learn C# and its Object Oriented features.
The first part of the book about branching , looping are great but as soon as you start the chapters about Object Oriented you get some programs as examples who are "POORLY" explained so basically you are trying to figure out what the program does on your own.
This book is "NOT" a book for a "real" beginner in programming meaning you have no programming experience. This book was made for "programmers" who are beginner in C# programming. Do you guys get the nuance? If you are TOTALLY new in programming trust me this book is not worth at all. A better option will be absolute beginner or C# 2005 for dummies.
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