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Summary: Hello, Readers!
Review: As the authors of Beginning C# Objects, Grant Palmer and I welcome any/all questions you might have about our book, and will do our best to respond quickly to all reader inquiries. (We'd tried to contact reader Martin Underwood, whose review appears below, several times, but our emails to him unfortunately kept bouncing back to us.)Please contact us via my website, objectstart.com ... and, thanks for your interest in our book! Best regards, Jacquie
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Summary: Hello, Readers!
Review: As the authors of Beginning C# Objects, Grant Palmer and I welcome any/all questions you might have about our book, and will do our best to respond quickly to all reader inquiries. (We'd tried to contact reader Martin Underwood, whose review appears below, several times, but our emails to him unfortunately kept bouncing back to us.) Please contact us via my website, objectstart.com ... and, thanks for your interest in our book! Best regards, Jacquie
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Summary: Look no further, people!
Review: For years I suffered from confusion regarding general object-oriented methodology. I'd read books that dealt with the syntax of object-oriented features, but none of these books dealt with the big picture of object-oriented architecture. They take you through the first steps ("this is how you define a class...", "this is how one class inherits from another...", etc) but none of them dealt with the next logical phase of learning; i.e. how do you "do" object-orientation in your software? In addition to that glaring deficiency, many of the books were difficult to read, being a tad bit academic and on the dry side...and some were completely dehydrated!
Imagine my surprise when I happened upon this book. Without a doubt this was everything I needed in a book like this. Very well written with a refreshingingly informal style, the book starts out explaining C#'s syntax and powerful features. From the very beginning of the book the authors tie-in what you're learning with a case study of how to design and implement a system with a modestly complex internal data structure (a student registration system for university courses). Examples are very clear, there are plenty of nice little nuggets of advice (things that you should get in the habit of doing) and most importantly WHY you should do these things (backed up with brief, easy to understand code).
Read this book from beginning to end. Then, read it again. It's very easy reading and won't take long to get through, especially if you're familiar with many object-oriented principles. I think you'll find yourself having many "AHA!" moments when reading. You'll be on your way to being a fully competant software architect ready to take on big projects with confidence. I only wish I had a book like this 5 years ago.
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Summary: Exercise answers to BC#O
Review: Hello, readers!
Just wanted to let you know that , for questions regarding the end of chapter exercises, you can go to http://objectstart.com/exercises.html. Thanks!
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Summary: Exactly what I was looking for
Review: I am an ASP/VBScript developer, and I am attempting in my spare time to move to ASP.NET and C#. This book does an excellent job of teaching C# and the fundamentals of object oriented programming. This is the perfect book if you want to establish a strong foundation in C# for yourself. The author does a great job of holding the reader's hand, and the pace is great. The writing style is smooth and natural, and the author really seems to care about conveying concepts as clearly as possible. Overall, I'm happily surprised by how easy this book is to learn from, and I think it's ideal for web programmers wondering how to get started in C# and object oriented programming.
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Summary: This Book is Awesome!
Review: I guarantee that you will become a better object-oriented C# programmer after reading this book and writing/compiling the examples!
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Summary: Object-Oriented C# Excellence!
Review: I have been writing very poor C# applications for 3 years. I bought a copy of Beginning C# Objects because I wanted to learn to take advantage of all of the object oriented features of C# without having to slog through excessive examples of object-oriented theory or have to translate object-oriented lessons from other languages such as C++ or Java into C#.
This book was everything I hoped it would be. This book carries over knowledge imparted in Beginning Java Objects (Jacquie Barker Apress 2003) spending equal time discussing object-oriented theory as well as C# implementation. While most programming books rely on the reader to "read between the lines" of code examples to explain complex theory this book excels at providing clear easy-to-read well written explanations.
I especially liked the first part of the book with discussion of objects and classes, object interactions and the relationship between objects including the distinguishing features of object-oriented programming languages with relation to C#.
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: Indeed an excellent book. I paid over twice the cost of the book for an online course on object modelling and the calibre of this book is far superior.
The detail of the highlights of this book have already been covered by other reviewers.
My $0.02 - it would be great if the author could publish suggested solutions to the exercises on her website. May I venture to suggest even vetting solutions sent in by readers(that may save you the time and effort), or even a group on yahoo for this purpose - heck, here it is - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CSharp_OO
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Summary: Good Book
Review: This is a good book and will teach object oriented programming much better than any other book I have read. I have read about 200 pages so far and it has been excellent. I would love to give this book 5 stars but two things a preventing that: 1. The review exercises don't have any suggested answers anywhere that I can find. 2. I have emailed the authors with no response. Other than these two problems this book is very interesting and seems to be an excellent OO book.
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Summary: an extremely useful book
Review: This is an extremely useful book. The concepts are clearly explained at every stage. I think the authors know their subjects well and also how to impart their knowledge to others.
I really thank these two guys for a well written book. Concepts I did'nt know before were clearly explained; those that I knew took on new meaning through their simple but refreshing approach.
Other technical writers can learn a thing or two from the authors about the art of writing.
This book will remain in my library for some time to come. I will be on the lookout for other titles from these two guys.
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