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Summary: Not bad, but ...
Review: ... the "Mastering Visual C# .NET" from Sybex is much better.
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Summary: Book Has Serious Problems
Review: As a university instructor, I used this book until it was replaced. I would absolutely NOT recommend this material. Students regularly complained over and over again about this text (the level of complaint far higher than with other textbooks). As for myself, I found the content to be very sloppy, the overall organization is terrible, there are serious omissions in places, and generally the book is shamelessly commercial (in one chapter, the actual examples are simply a list of other books, with prices, which Deitel publishes -- a pathetic attempt at marketing).
To the average person with little knowledge of this material, on the surface I’m sure this book will appear to be adequate. Under the surface, this book has significant problems.
What I’ve seen happen over and over again is, a student reads through a section of the material, but is still confused and doesn’t grasp important concepts. Unfortunately, the student simply blames him or herself for not understanding this material. But it’s not the fault of the student. It’s the fault of the book authors, who do not present the information in a clear and well organized manner.
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Summary: We've got a winner !
Review: As an experienced reader of various kinds of technical and software development books I must say that this book is the most useful, Productive, Valuable, Understandable among all other books I've read.I can only hope that the writers of this book will continue writing in the same quality
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Summary: Wordy and Too systematic
Review: As many have pointed out, the book starts great but then it becomes confusing and wordy. There are two reasons for that: 1. It analyzes the code systematticly. Every line of code is explained even though it might have been explained earlier in the book. Sometimes the authors repeat themselves and explain the same code twice! 2. The authors present long and complicated code just to demonstrate new and simple concepts. This is apparent by their exessive use of GUI applications at the beginning of the book, Especially in chapter 6 "Methods". Future revisions of the book must consider the above mentioned problems as they seriously hinder the learning progress.
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Summary: Good practice problems
Review: Contrary to what some say about this book, this book is not for the beginners. Yes, it does cover lot of basic concepts, but they are tuned for those who already have a fundamental understanding of C#, Java, or C++ (all related to C). What separates this book from others is its practice problems. The best way to learn programming is to practice, and this book provides enough practice problems to really enhance one's understanding of C#. Highly recommmended for intermediate level C# developers.
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Summary: Needs some work
Review: Deitel books have been getting better and better with each new release. The later editions of "Java How To Program" were a vast improvement over the early editions of the book. Taking that experience, Deitel published this, their first C# book, in December 2001. The result is a mix of good and not so good. The overall approach to the topic is the standard Deitel method of covering topics in-depth with plenty of code samples. Anyone familiar with their C++ or Java books will recognize the Deitel formula immediately. In this case, the book suffers a little from being a first edition. The book covers all the main topics of the C# language, explains how to use Visual Studio, gives a primer on object oriented programming, and touches upon some advanced topics such as ADO, ASP, and web services. The book does have a feel of being rushed, however. Some of the examples seem either overly contrived or unnecessarily confusing. In some cases the explanations of the code are incomplete. For some reason, Deitel chose to print this book using only black and red instead of the multi-color print used in their Java books. Overall, this book is one of the better introductory C# books. It covers a much wider array of topics than many of the other C# books available and in general it covers them reasonably well. The CD does not include a student or demo copy of Visual Studio.
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Summary: Needs some work
Review: Deitel books have been getting better and better with each new release. The later editions of "Java How To Program" were a vast improvement over the early editions of the book. Taking that experience, Deitel published this, their first C# book, in December 2001. The result is a mix of good and not so good. The overall approach to the topic is the standard Deitel method of covering topics in-depth with plenty of code samples. Anyone familiar with their C++ or Java books will recognize the Deitel formula immediately. In this case, the book suffers a little from being a first edition. The book covers all the main topics of the C# language, explains how to use Visual Studio, gives a primer on object oriented programming, and touches upon some advanced topics such as ADO, ASP, and web services. The book does have a feel of being rushed, however. Some of the examples seem either overly contrived or unnecessarily confusing. In some cases the explanations of the code are incomplete. For some reason, Deitel chose to print this book using only black and red instead of the multi-color print used in their Java books. Overall, this book is one of the better introductory C# books. It covers a much wider array of topics than many of the other C# books available and in general it covers them reasonably well. The CD does not include a student or demo copy of Visual Studio.
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Summary: Good, but way, way too expensive.
Review: Deitel, Deitel, Listfield, Nieto, Yeager, and Zlatinka, C# How to Program (Prentice Hall, 2002)
One would think, given how much this book and CD package costs, you'd at least get a good title. Yes, the title is as above. Not even a colon to make it halfway grammatically correct. Just "C# How to Program." Sheesh. The title does not indicate the remainder of the text, however. C#HTP (I can't bring myself to type that title again) is good, solid intro stuff, with a couple of detours out into places that C# books don't normally go (e.g., accessibility features in C# or C#'s implementations of the traditional LinkedList and Queue structures, neither of which I've seen covered in any other C# book I've read). It reads somewhat dry, like a textbook, but let's face it; the Deitels are textbook authors. You shouldn't be expecting Stephen King.
The book itself is actually something of an afterthought, it seems. The whole thing (and extra appendices they didn't put in the book) can be found on the accompanying CD-ROM, with a whole lot of audio and video extras, programming tips, code, etc. integrated into the text. The presentation is quite nice, though the fixed nature of the pop-up code sample boxes makes a few of them somewhat harder to read than they probably should be. ("Fixed" as in you can't change the width of the blocks of text therein.) Good stuff. I'm not sure it's worth the amount it retails for, but if you can find a reasonably-priced used copy on Amazon ("reasonably priced," here, means "about the same amount you'd pay for other computer books of this level of detail"), it's worth picking up. *** ½
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Summary: NOT FOR BEGINNERS
Review: First i want to say that this book not for beginners ... . let's talk about the book. From the first chapter to chapter 9 is great chapters and you will understand it 100 %,but after that you have to buy another book, WHY ??? i will tell you .
in chapters of Threadding,windows forms,text manpulation,graphics,networking,XML,ASP.NET and web forms,ASP.NET WEB SERVIECES.. all this chapters just a fast introduction to the subjects and i'm sure that the bigenner will not understand it as they expect. But if you looked at wrox up comming titles like text manpulation hankbook C#, and a lot of this handbooks comming in C#. So don't buy this book if you are a beginner. i advice you to buy wrox books from begining to professional level. ...
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Summary: for professionals only :(
Review: First, the book is not for self study or for beginners, and the book contain a lot of uncovered chapters from chapter 12-22 and this mena the whole book, So If you want beginner book that's not yours .. but if you are a C++ programmer or Java programmer then get it and you will find it perfect.
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