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Summary: This book is a must have
Review: Although not quite new to the concepts behind OOP and developing (working with these concepts for 8 years now through VFP) I bought James' book as I was new to C#. The clear and concise examples as well as a easy to read text made me feel comfortable with this .NET language in a short time. For those who want a thorough introduction in C# this book is extremely good.
I Mailed James already that I am looking forward to other books from his hand which require higher skills.James Foxall and Wendy Chun did a good job on this book. Therefore, James and Wendy, keep on writing, do us a favor!
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Summary: Really good book
Review: For programmers who are new to Microsoft IDE environment. This book is a detailed, step by step guide through this vast wilderness. Better than any that I have come across. I couldn't have made it through my first Visual Studio.Net course without the help I got from this excellent book.
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Summary: Visual.Net IDE Handholder
Review: For programmers who are new to Microsoft IDE environment. This book is a detailed, step by step guide through this vast wilderness. Better than any that I have come across. I couldn't have made it through my first Visual Studio.Net course without the help I got from this excellent book.
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Summary: THIS BOOK IS PERFECT!!!
Review: Hey i'm a younger generation and think is a great book!!! James has made a great book up! It explains everything quick, easily and clearly. No matter if your new or an Intermediate or even an expert trying to adjust to the language you'll find this a perfect book! Any one should get it.
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Summary: Good book, but it doesn't teach C#
Review: I just finished reading this book cover to cover and I'm afraid I don't know C# much better than I did before I started. I am now an expert in using the (really cool and powerful) Visual Studio.Net Integrated Development Environment, but I hardly learned a thing about programming. So, if you want to be able to create cool applications by dragging and dropping and using menus, this book is great. If you want to have a clue about the code behind your applications and/or learn some lessons in Object-Oriented Programming, you'll need another book. (...)
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Summary: Good book, but it doesn't teach C#
Review: I just finished reading this book cover to cover and I'm afraid I don't know C# much better than I did before I started. I am now an expert in using the (really cool and powerful) Visual Studio.Net Integrated Development Environment, but I hardly learned a thing about programming. So, if you want to be able to create cool applications by dragging and dropping and using menus, this book is great. If you want to have a clue about the code behind your applications and/or learn some lessons in Object-Oriented Programming, you'll need another book. (...)
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Summary: Really good book
Review: If me a 12 year old can read it and understand it! Its the perfect book for anyone! Begginers use it to learn and intermediates like me use it to learn the new language quick and easy! James Foxalls writing and straight out samples are fun to create! He provides heaps of help to you online if you ever need it to. Whether you want to create personel, business or educational like programs buy this book!
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Summary: LIVES UP TO ITS WORD: AN INTRO TO VISUAL C# .NET FOR NOVICES
Review: More of a guide to use the IDE than code C#.
Less, if not zero, talk about OOP.
Good for wetting your feet in.
Concentrates more on GUIs and less on components, services, etc.
2 good database examples.
All the example code I tried worked just fine. OVERALL, LIVES UP TO ITS WORD: AN INTRO TO VISUAL C# .NET FOR NOVICES. So, 4.5 on 5 rating.
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Summary: Material OK, very badly organized for new programmers
Review: The book does a decent job of covering visual C# material. But the way it is organized is so bad for new programmers that I can only give it one star. You keep getting "write this code, I will explain later" that most newcomers to programming will give up withing the first three chapters as all they do is point and click and write tons of code they have no ideah how it works. This book was obviously written by a programmer who doesn't teach new students. We have this book at work and none of the 4 people who used it had any success in learning to program in C#.
This is odd for a SAMS book, as they are usually excellent learning books. I would recommend the Teach Yourself C# in 21 days as a better tool for a new programmer to grasp the language.
Even for experienced programmers (and I have been one for 18 years), the book is hard to follow. Phrases like "now add this code ..." whithout saying where (you are stuck looking at pictures in the book and your source code file to finally figure out where the code is suppose to go) doesn't help one bit.
This is a teach yourself book, it should take you from scratch and teach you. All it does in the first few chapters is confuse you and discourage your from learning. I suspect this book was bought my many who ended up leaving it on their bookshelf thinking they cannot learn to program while the problem is not them at all. That is unfortunate!
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Summary: C#.net Book
Review: The first chapter was excellent in this book. I am currently on chapter 7, but the gui details still go on and on....I really expected to see some more coding behind the controls in this book. The nice thing is that this book is that it discusses retrieving some data from a database.
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