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Summary: Mainly just the C#
Review: I like this book because it has a lot about the language in the small chapters over 21 days. It seems like the author knows a lot about the language and its not just a reemake ofa Visual Basic book.
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Summary: There are better books to start with.
Review: I started out as a big fan of this book. The introductory chapters were great. But the book soon lost its focus. It seems the authors started writing chapters on individual aspects of C# without a clear idea of what they were trying to teach and how it all worked together to produce functional C# code. I was disappointed after being excited at the beginning. I've had much better luck now with the C# How to Program book from the Deitels.
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Summary: There are better books to start with.
Review: I started out as a big fan of this book. The introductory chapters were great. But the book soon lost its focus. It seems the authors started writing chapters on individual aspects of C# without a clear idea of what they were trying to teach and how it all worked together to produce functional C# code. I was disappointed after being excited at the beginning. I've had much better luck now with the C# How to Program book from the Deitels.
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Summary: Fantastic Book
Review: I'm very glad to finally see a book out that doesn't require people to spend a vast fortune buying Visual Studio, while that is fine for corporate development many personal developers can't afford the rather steep price tag associated to Visual Studio.
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Summary: Not what I was expecting!
Review: Just know this book has you developing code in the SDK, not Visual Studio .NET. If anything that should turn you away from buying this.
Any .NET programmer WILL be working with Visual Studio and not an SDK.
The SAMS teach yourself C# in 24 hours was completely written for VS .NET, so I am confused as to why this book was not.
Get another book as this one will be only of use for terminology and OOP theory. It was a waste on Money for me.
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Summary: Reads well and is a bargain at $35
Review: Review by Aaron J. Young for CodeGuru.com:If you're new to programming or have little experience, Teach Yourself C# is a great beginner's book. With it's course-like layout, the material is split into 3 weeks of 7 lessons/days, each covering a new but related topic, allowing the reader to pace him or herself and actually absorb what's being read without becoming overwhelmed by new concepts as is the case with many other "tutorial" books. Teach Yourself C# in 21 Days covers all the topics needed to get you going in C#. You learn, step-by-step, the development lifecycle, programming fundamentals; like structure and program flow, statements, expressions and storage types. Object orientated design concepts are covered in sufficient detail, like inheritance, polymorphism and encapsulation. This includes coverage of the most common .NET Classes such as the Math routines, Files and Streams. Each day ends with a summary, followed by a Q and A section where the author attempts to answer some common questions on the covered subjects, this is then followed by a Workshop consisting of a quiz and exercises designed to reinforce what has just been learnt. There are also plenty of code listings through out the book, including several "Type and Run" listings, implementing the discussed materials making it easy to follow and understand what's being taught. It's worth mentioning that this book doesn't just stop at covering the basics of C#, it also covers ADO.NET and even designing Web Services and ASP.NET pages to a point where you can actually get something up and running and feel comfortable about how it was done. The book is aimed at beginning to intermediate programmers, if you're in the intermediate range, but new to .NET, you'll find weeks 2 and 3 the most interesting, week 1, which is peppered with programming fundamentals does a fantastic job of preparing you for what's to come in the other 2 weeks. Overall Teach Yourself C# in 21 Days is a must for those starting out on the .NET path, it gives you a very thorough understanding of the core language and brings you to a point where you'll be developing meaningful applications almost immediately. A CD-ROM comes with the book and contains all the code listings organized by day as well as other tools and utilities, like the .NET framework v1.1/SDK, "SharpDevelop" - a free, open source, development environment for .NET and "Mono" - an open source implementation of the .NET framework for Linux. There's so much useful information crammed into this book and yet it's done in a format that won't leave you scratching your head, it reads well and is a bargain at $35 - highly recommended.
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Summary: Good book.
Review: This book is a great introduction to those with previous programming experience in C/C++ and those with no programming experience at all. The weeks coincide with the others building you a solid foundation for the C# language.
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Summary: Great book for beginners.
Review: This book is great for beginners with no previous programming experience,as well as C/C++ programmers. The Quizes and Exercises build a solid foundation for future chapters.
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Summary: You'll read it cover to cover and keep it for reference
Review: This book was awesome! I just finished reading it today and I am amazed of how much I learned.
I disagree with the comment that rates it bad for not talking enough about Visual Studio.... There are good books about "Visual C#" which target this audience, however the best developers are those who learn how to build software from scratch without fancy tools.
Trust me, before this, I had no idea what was all the code Visual Studio (and even SharpDevelop) generated by default.
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I read 1 chapter a day; then took the chapter quiz, and did all the exercises.
Also play with the "Type and Run's", they are a lot of fun!
I am now writing my own C# applications (Console, Windows-based, Web, and even for my Pocket PC).
Excellent book, great job Brad Jones!
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