C# Book Recommendation

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Tony!

I've got some books on C#, but I'm wondering, what book(s) would you people that
have already learned C# pretty well recommend?

Most of the time I look on Amazon and see reader comments suggesting that the
book in question was written by someone using the Beta version and things have
changed since then so much of the code/text is no longer correct..

Looking to avoid getting burned by things like the above :)

Tony!
 
I have several C# books, but the truth is, most of my information I get off
the internet or the MSDN these days. I think once you get past the basics,
books are generally less useful than the internet for info on programming in
C#/.NET

For one thing, you can see a lot more variety in how to do things. A book is
generally going to show you one way whereas by finding samples on the
internet, you can usually find that there's more than one way to skin a cat,
and pick the method that works best for your project.

Just a thought.

Pete
 
Tony! said:
I've got some books on C#, but I'm wondering, what book(s) would you people that
have already learned C# pretty well recommend?

Most of the time I look on Amazon and see reader comments suggesting that the
book in question was written by someone using the Beta version and things have
changed since then so much of the code/text is no longer correct..

Looking to avoid getting burned by things like the above :)
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I have three C# books and I can't say Ive learned C# "pretty well"
yet, but if your coming from another language such as VB or C++, the
O'Rielly "Programming C#" is an enjoyable tutorial. Based more on the
actual semantics and mechanics of C# than the Visual Studio, windows -
web forms or .NET perspective. Good stuff!
 
c# the complete reference (publ-osborne) is by far the best programming
learning book I have yet to come across -and have finally got to a stage
where OO programming and methodologies make sense!
 
I have three C# books and I can't say Ive learned C# "pretty well"
yet, but if your coming from another language such as VB or C++, the
O'Rielly "Programming C#" is an enjoyable tutorial. Based more on the
actual semantics and mechanics of C# than the Visual Studio, windows -
web forms or .NET perspective. Good stuff!
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Thanks for your (and others) reply!

So far I'm finding the books I have spend lots of time on basic stuff
on what a loop is and why you would want to use it,.. etc,...
And also quadrillian references of C++ and Java and how it's done in
C#..

Coming from VB, I'd like more meat and less general programming
concept chat, and more "This is how you did a loop in vb, this is how
you do it in C#".

I'll be looking into the various titles suggested! Thanks to all
again! :)
 
Tony said:
Thanks for your (and others) reply!

So far I'm finding the books I have spend lots of time on basic stuff
on what a loop is and why you would want to use it,.. etc,...
And also quadrillian references of C++ and Java and how it's done in
C#..

Coming from VB, I'd like more meat and less general programming
concept chat, and more "This is how you did a loop in vb, this is how
you do it in C#".
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For this purpose you might want to look at these books:

http://www.desaware.com/products/books/net/movingtovbnet/index.aspx

http://www.desaware.com/products/books/net/vborc/index.aspx

note that I have not read either one, so this isn't an endorsement - it
just seems that these books are targeted at the area that you described.
 
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