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Summary: possibly the best c# primer around
Review: Having had no programming experience at all, I am now confidently written an image processing application for a digital xray device. The MSc student who bagged this book so much should seriously think about whether or not he is on doing the right study course. If you cant understand this book, you should consider euthanasia
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Summary: Excellen Book for the Serious Professional
Review: I am a huge fan of the how to program series, it is how I learned java. Since the how to learn java 2nd was rock solid, it was a no brainer for me to pick this book for c#. The line by line explanation of the code and tons of live examples are the key to learning as far as I am concerned (a newbie to c#). I am on ch 18 of this book and have written my own tools library (a wishlist of handy internet tools I have always wanted) and file back up and file syncronization manager (no way am I spending 25 bucks for an off the shelf app!). The book has a few code errors but that is no biggee, I was easily able to figure out solutions (plus that is when I knew I had learned something -- I when started catching mistakes) HEHE!
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Summary: The only way to learn c#
Review: I am a huge fan of the how to program series, it is how I learned java. Since the how to learn java 2nd was rock solid, it was a no brainer for me to pick this book for c#. The line by line explanation of the code and tons of live examples are the key to learning as far as I am concerned (a newbie to c#). I am on ch 18 of this book and have written my own tools library (a wishlist of handy internet tools I have always wanted) and file back up and file syncronization manager (no way am I spending 25 bucks for an off the shelf app!). The book has a few code errors but that is no biggee, I was easily able to figure out solutions (plus that is when I knew I had learned something -- I when started catching mistakes) HEHE!
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Summary: Certainly lacking
Review: I am currently enrolled in a masters in MIS degree, and we used this text (unfortunately) for one course I took. While I am quite impressed with C#, I felt the presentation of the book was seriously lacking. While its organization did follow a fairly logical pattern, the text itself, and especially the examples presented in each of the chapters, were at best mediorce. I often found that the code examples in each of the sections actually detracted from my learning throughout the course, instead of of being a valuable reference. I would definitely recommend finding another text, especially if the reader is a beginning to intermediate level programmer.
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Summary: Too bad for beginner
Review: I am studying a Master degree in MIS and using this book for my class.
It made me mad and got a lot of trouble.
It seems the authors talk so much but doesn't give us any practice. The instructions are not clear.
For example: p.567- line 3 , in creating a child form, the guidelines is so confused.
There are a lot of problems like this, i do not have enough time to list them all.
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Summary: Top of the Line!
Review: I call it the Mercedez Benz of "How to" books! If you want to learn how to program.., this is a thouroughly wonderful book to learn from. I've bought and returned so many books.., but this one is a keeper. NUFF SAID!
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Summary: Bad Bad Book
Review: I cannot stand the way the book is layed out. Bolding words throught their text that have no real stand out value is what really ticks me. An there detail is bad.... example is variable types, there is about 2 lines on the subject.I had an issue on dataset and datatable, its non existant in the text. I can't believe I spent $85 on this text.
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Summary: Poor
Review: I found the structure of this book difficult to follow and the programs weren't well thought out (at least I didn't think so).
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Summary: Excellent book, worth the price
Review: I had been looking for a C# book which also took care of teaching to exploit all the benefits of the .Net framework. I had stumbled with some books that were too inclined to either the language itself or the .net framework, but this book keeps a good balance between these two topics. I purchased Professional C# from Wrox, but I saw too many typos in the text and even worse in the code!, so I went ahead and returned it later. I decided to spend some time at the bookstore comparing books and after much deliberation this one won me. I think it was a little bit expensive but it was worth it since it includes clear explanations, visual representation of what the samples do and how they work and best of all, it covers may topics I was interested in like XML, SOAP, Web Services, ASP.NET, etc. I even liked the two color schema (red and black) in which it is printed.
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Summary: I had forgotten how much I liked programming!
Review: I have been doing systems work for several years, and lately I have started playing with programming again. I am really enjoying this book; it's very thorough, and the programs are concise and well-thought out. I am impressed by the amount of documentation they include within each program. I have hesitated to buy their books in the past because they are expensive, but they are WELL worth it.
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