Sams Teach Yourself Visual C# 2010 in 24 Hours: Complete Starter Kit (Sams Teach Yourself — Hours)
C# has quickly established itself as one of the world’s most widely used programming languages. The newest version, Visual C# 2010, includes several important new features, including Silverlight, the Entity Framework, tighter integration with version 4.0 of the .NET Framework, and full support for programming Windows 7 and Office. The proven Sams Teach Yourself method will help all newcomers to C# 2010 get up to speed quickly, no matter whether you’ve had experience with previous versions of Visual C# or not. You are taken step by step through the process of software development, learning elements as you build a sample application so that the material is framed in a real world approach. The accompanying DVD contains Visual C# 2010 Express Edition, and the companion Web site contains all the code and exercises from the book.
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Programming IS NOT Easy,
Keeping in mind that programming is somewhat difficult and complicated to learn, this is a good book. It’s true – his code isn’t fully optimized or great, but this WILL teach you C#. It’s not for the beginner, and it says quite clearly at the beginning. (Though I’m not sure if it’s in the description.)
People with a semester or two of any C or .NET language should be able to pick up on anything in this book quite easily, but keep in mind the old saying that goes something like “A wise man hears everyone’s opinion, takes his counsel from his closest and most trustworthy friends, and makes his decision by himself.”
There’s lots of various opinions and alternative ways of doing things in programming, so it doesn’t hurt to ask for advice on various message boards, though if worst comes to worst, you won’t need it. If you’re truly interested in learning C#, there may be a better alternative, but this WILL teach it to you. Good luck to all you potential programmers, and I’ll leave you with a little tip that this book doesn’t mention. To keep console applications from closing as soon as they compute, without having to hit Ctrl+F5, place
Console.ReadLine();
at the bottom of your application’s code.
Cheerio!
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|Kindle vs Print,
I picked up the kindle version so I could have the book open on one screen visual c# open on the next. Was the kindle version perhaps compiled of an early manuscript? There are a few areas where the exercises have referenced things that weren’t mentioned earlier. I checked a copy of the print version locally and saw that the noted sections were slightly different and made a LOT more sense in the greater context. Still, good resource and reintroduction to OOP. The last programming I did was 14 years ago now, and this book is bringing me back to speed quickly.
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