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Summary: Not for web development...
Review: Although I usually enjoy this series of books I didn't like this one and quickly returned it. It is definitely not for beginners and seems to be all over the place without any particular logical flow. It doesn't appear to be well thought out and really has very little ASP.NET inside it. The author mentions this is a book to teach the C# language and the choices to bring the lesson across were command line, windows or web programs. The author chose web (ASP.NET) yet doesn't teach much at all about ASP.NET. If you want to learn C# this book is not horrible but there are many others much better that this. If you wan't to learn ASP.NET using C# do yourself a favor and buy Programming ASP.NET by Oreilly.
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Summary: A little disjointed, but excellent coverage.
Review: I like this book despite the fact it can be hard to follow. Good solid examples that take you from beginnging to end and cover all the necessary C# functionality. This book is good to have around and should be looked at by all who are starting to use C# and ASP.NET.
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Summary: Build Errors A Plenty Half Baked Book
Review: So far a frustrating experience with this book.
The on-line "help" is non-existant and the source files
are half baked. So, far nothing runs for me. Disjointed code and writing.
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Summary: Great introduction. Not for beginner.
Review: This book explains many useful basic things
of C# in really simple way.
You will learn delegates, arrays, exceptions
within a few hours.
Very useful and enjoyable book.
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Summary: Great book for beginning programmers
Review: This book is designed for the developer with little to no OO experience, who wants to write ASP.NET quickly in C#. I found this to be a great book which fulfills its purpose. The book provides a short section on a specific topic (e.g. "Representing Objects as Strings") and after a little theory, provides the specific steps to perform the task. Sometimes these steps are elements of code the reader needs to type, other times instructions are provided for the Visual Studio .NET IDE. Code examples are provided throughout the book, with relevant lines or snippets highlighted in red. This formatting allows the reader to easily see the author's point.After reading this book, the reader should be familiar with Microsoft's .NET initiative as well as have an understanding of the C# syntax. Additionally, the reader should have a good understanding of OO programming after reading this book. Furthermore, through reading this book, the reader will learn the basics of inheritance, interfaces, delegates and event handling, error handling, reflection, as well as web services. If you're an experienced Java or C++ developer, you may want to find a more advanced book. However, if you are new to OO programming or .NET, then you should definitely pick up this book.
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Summary: Great book for beginning programmers
Review: This book is designed for the developer with little to no OO experience, who wants to write ASP.NET quickly in C#. I found this to be a great book which fulfills its purpose. The book provides a short section on a specific topic (e.g. "Representing Objects as Strings") and after a little theory, provides the specific steps to perform the task. Sometimes these steps are elements of code the reader needs to type, other times instructions are provided for the Visual Studio .NET IDE. Code examples are provided throughout the book, with relevant lines or snippets highlighted in red. This formatting allows the reader to easily see the author's point. After reading this book, the reader should be familiar with Microsoft's .NET initiative as well as have an understanding of the C# syntax. Additionally, the reader should have a good understanding of OO programming after reading this book. Furthermore, through reading this book, the reader will learn the basics of inheritance, interfaces, delegates and event handling, error handling, reflection, as well as web services. If you're an experienced Java or C++ developer, you may want to find a more advanced book. However, if you are new to OO programming or .NET, then you should definitely pick up this book.
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Summary: Pretty good book for C# Newbies
Review: This book is part of the Visual Quickstart Guide series and takes an easy, visual approach to teaching C# which it does quite well. The text is somewhat disjointed and reads better if it is approached as a reference rather than a step-by-step lesson book to web development.
Some of the code works and some doesn't which can be frustrating to a newcomer to C#. There is also limited reference to ASP.NET.
The passages are concise and Mojica does a pretty good job of explaining what the reader/learner needs to know. The best portions of the book are the C# Building Blocks and Class Inheritance chapters. Also mentioned are your basic instruction in Conditionals and Loops; Strings; Types; Interfaces; Arrays; Delegates; Error Handling and Reflection and Attributes.
All in all it is a pretty good book but it may not be the best choice for newbies to OO even though the book's stated level is beginner to intermediate.
I'd score this one a 3 1/2 out of 5.
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