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Summary: Good C# introduction for experienced programmers
Review: Lippman's C# Primer assumes that the reader knows C++ or Java. It does not cover basic language constructs so it is not a good choice as a first C# book for people that have not programmed before. The first four chapters include many good insights into the C# language from a professional programmer's point of view. These are hard to find in other texts and make this book worthwhile. A future edition should concentrate on including more language insights and less on WinForms or ASP.NET specifics that are covered better on other texts. Probably some basics should be included to expand its appeal to new programmers....
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Summary: Great book to learn C# for experienced developer
Review: Most C# books are so verbose that after a while you tend to skim over parts just to finish the book, this book however is shorter and to the point, so you have a chance of actually finishing it. This book focuses on those C# issues that are new/hard for people that are relatively new to object-oriented programming, like classes, inhertance, interfaces and not much on topics familiar to any experienced developer like conditional logic, looping logic and branching. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn C# and object oriented programming.
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Summary: Best Book of It's Kind. Period.
Review: Mr. Lippman brings to C# what he brought to C++; that is, an easy to follow, concise, tutorial for a complex subject. The book is indispensable for beginners and advanced people who enjoy a tutorial introduction to new topics. The book is meant to whet your appetite for the broad range of subjects possible in the .NET framework (remoting, soap, web services, xml, etc...), but remains focused on teaching you the C# language. Excellent book. Well written.
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Summary: It must be an Excellent book!
Review: No doubt, Stan Lippman is a great author. C++ Primer, Essential C++, Inside C++ Object Model ... If I have to choose a book about C#, if I don't know anything about any of these books, how to choose? I can only choose by author. So, I will choose this one.
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Summary: hugely disappointing
Review: one'd expect Stan Lippman to produce a really good book on C# and yet this one is hugely disappointing - superficial, incomplete, with lots of errors. Gunnerson's book does far better job...What happened to Stan?
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Summary: Not bad, could be clearer on the trickier points
Review: Overall this book is decent, if you have programming experience.
I wish it would contrast C# to other languages; no reason to have to read thru a whole explanation, if he would just say, "this feature works just like Java...". The biggest flaw is that for some of the stranger concepts, he doesn't really build up a sufficient explanation. I am a very experienced OO Architect and Java coder, yet I found his explanations of such subjects as "a Polymorphic Query Language" incomplete. With few exceptions however the book is well written, had minimal typos, and was acceptable
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Summary: C# Objects
Review: Stanley Lippman's eloquent, small book, is a superb meditation on the design and building of object-oriented software with C#. As he maps out the different possibilities and examines different scenarios, he gives firm reasons for why you would make the different choices available to you with this C# tool. This is a lucid text. You know this guy really knows the object-oriented subject he's writing about. His words tell you that he has built these kinds of systems before, that he has thought, considered, explored and tested the implications of the various design choices that C# makes possible. This book might be late to the party, but the best parts of this book, the chapters on class design, object-oriented programming, and interface inheritance, are worth the wait. This enlightening little book takes the C# canon places it's never been before -- and quite simply are unmatched anywhere else. I would advise you to read this book slowly, you can really learn something from Stanley Lippman's C# Primer.
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Summary: A primer for the experienced (C++)
Review: The first 4 chapters (~200 pages) is where it's at. I read his books on C++ and those and this one are right on the mark. Chapter 5-8 are about the .Net Framework (a bit cursory) and dated (pre-release beta) and much has changed. The first 4 chapters are a gem. But where is Stan ? His firm objectwrite.com is nowhere to be seen on the web. Therefore, sample code is not available.
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Summary: Do you really need another all-in-one reference book for C#?
Review: There is already a bulk of reference books about C#: Inside C#, A programmer's introducation to C# and Programming C# are the most outstanding ones among them. And also, the ECMA standard of C# is available for free download.
Why do we need another language reference if it still don't have a deep look into C#/.NET CLR? It's true that this book is still a good reference, it also includes some OO design concepts and princeples. But if you already have one of the three books listed, I don't think this book is a must buy.
What we really need now is "Inside C# Object Model", not "C# Primer"! :)
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Summary: Rather bad
Review: This book is terrible. First of all it is not well written and it takes time to realize what author is talking about. Secondly author discusses advantages of certain things without describing what they are (other then mentioning their name, such as 'Hybrid classes'), so reader is left to figure out what is this supposed to mean. Examples are bad as well, skipping way too many areas. (Hey it's almost end of the book and I never seen how to get input, kind of like "cin <<") Lastly authors refers to his previous job to show some examples, yet examples are so unfitting that it makes you wonder if it is done for anything more then just bragging. There are definitely better books out there. (Actually VS help seems to be brief and to the point)
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