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.
Rating:  - a suberb C# primer for novice object-oriented programmers
Excerpt from C# Online.NET Review (wiki.CSharp-Online.NET):
"This is somewhat of a rare C# book: it is designed specifically to educate the novice programmer and those with little or no Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) under their belts. And, it succeeds admirably in its mission.... The focus of the book is C# fundamentals and OO basics."
BTW I have noticed that some people have reviewed the wrong book here: this is the 2nd edition: it does have exercises.
Rating:  - Jesse Liberty and Brian MacDonald pull it together nicely!
I am a Visual Basic 6 programmer and I have been set it my ways. I figured I could have started at the next level up but something nagged me to start at the begining. I am happy I started with this book and my next book will be by this author.
This book is well crafted and has reintroduced topics to me that has bid me a better understanding of complex subjects in a way that just clicked for me. This book has even taught me things about the if statement that I didn't even realize were happening. "short circuiting"
The knowledge of the langauge by the authors is unquestionable. The thoroughness of the lessons is supperior. I recommend this book highly.
The complaint I have is the examples in the book are boring. That is the reason for the 4 star review.
Rating: - Excellent intro to C#
Let me just start out by saying how impressed I was with this book. This is an excellent introduction to not only C# and the .NET framework, but it's an excellent introduction to object-oriented design. I found this book to be an excellent way for beginning programmers to easily enter the world of .NET.
The book begins with an very brief introduction to C# and C# fundamentals. Again, this discussion is geared for the novice to intermediate programmer, so there's nothing too scary here. The Visual Studio IDE is discussed and a quick tutorial into the various menus and options available in the IDE is presented. After these introductory chapters, the authors dive right in to operators (like + and /), but also more complicated operations like modulus. The authors then proceed to discuss virtually everything you need to know to create a sophisticated program. The book has been updated to incorporate information about the latest .NET release (version 2.0), with a discussion on Generics.
In typical O'Reilly fashion, tips, tricks, and things to watch out for are clearly identified in the text. But this book goes a step beyond and includes a quiz at the end of each chapter. This quiz covers the major points of the chapter and includes the correct answers at the end of the book. I thought this was an excellent step in helping programmers new to C# (or even .NET) an excellent way to test their skills and comprehension.
I absolutely love this book. It's a great introduction to C# and .NET, it's easy to follow, and it's easy to test your comprehension. If you're looking for a great book for the beginning to intermediate developer, I would highly recommend this one.
Rating: - Who says geeks can't write!
I'm a seasoned OO programmer (Delphi, c++), and have found Jesse Liberty's Learning C# a very excellent launching point to the latest and best programming language to come along in years.
The book is very well written with excellent examples.
I recommend this book for both novice and expert alike.
For the novice, don't bother learning either c or c++. Jesse Liberty's Learning C# has a thorough and easy to learn introduction to Object Oriented Programming theory and a very excellent comprehensive overview of OO using C#.
For the expert, use this book to accelerate into the new world of C#. Did you learn OO the correct way the first time? With Learning C# you'll have full command of all the features and nuances of C# and you will have mastered the language so that you can help others learn it too. With Learning C#, you will master the foundational aspects of the programming language and will be well prepared for advaced topics in C# and the .NET frameworks.
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