Rating:  - Best Computer Teaching & Learning Book available today
Dan Solis's Illustrated C# 2008 is a pleasure to read and from which to learn, both with concise information and the easy to understand illustrations in it.
The illustrations make this book unique in that they make relatively foreign concepts easy to understand. They are consistent, build one on another, and make sense. He takes the concept of the stack and the heap, explaining how temporary data is stored, right from the beginning. With each new data type, or type member, an illustration shows how it is different from the others, and therefore why that user defined type was developed.
I strongly recommend this book for anyone wanting to learn the basics of a computer language, and especially C#, which is becomming the standard, as well as the language used my Microsoft in their program development.
What a delight!
Rating: - What every C# programmer needs to know
This is the C# book that I always keep next to me. If I am unsure about some type of class, delegates, interfaces, etc. I open up this book and get right up to speed. While concise, Dan leaves nothing out in terms of details required for effective C# programming.
The LINQ coverage is outstanding! It is so good that I hope Dan does an entire book on the subject. His mastery of informative graphics would be an ideal format for help to save us T-SQL hacks from having to stand on our heads to get at LINQ.
I highly recommend this book.
Rating: - You will not read a better book on C#
You will not read a better book on C#.
The first edition (2005) was great, this one is even better.
If you only get two books on C# then this should be one of them.
But, if you only buy one book... :) then get this one.
Sorry this review is short on content, but the other reviewer will bring you up to speed. (just the ones with 5 stars)
The 2008 version vs 2005 version
It includes a new chapter on asynchronous programming using delegates.
It includes a new chapter on the new LINQ features.
One small down side in the 2005 version (not sure about the 2008 version)
The author states that fields should begin with upper case letters and local variable begin with lower case. In 2005 chapter on Methods, the author makes the mistake of using upper case for local variables...
This may have been corrected in 2008 version.
Rating: - Clear and well organized
I now have 4 books on C# and this is by far the best (at least for me). The material is well organized with consice, well thought out explanations. In addition, the figures add a great deal of to clarify the text. To me, this book was written to inform.
As I usually make numerous notes this book fits my needs very well with an ample amount of white space.
Thanks to Daniel Solis.
Rating:  - For refenence, not for learning C#
Suppose you knew nothing of automobiles and wanted to know how they worked. A book using this author's approach would first tell you about every kind of screw in the automobile, it's exact size, material, thread count per inch, and type. Chapter 2 would tell you about the nuts into which the screws would be placed. Even for an experienced programmer, this book will tell you all about the trees, but very little about the forest. Why three stars:
because it's an excellent reference text about the language, clear and thorough.
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