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C# 2008 Fundamentals I and II LiveLessons (Video Training)

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Look, the blurb at the back of the package says that this collection gives $US2000 of expert C# training. This is hyperbole, inflicted upon us by some overenthusiastic copywriter. What that refers to is how much you might have to pay for personal tutoring, presumably by Deitel or some other C# expert.

But if we leave this aside, then the videos can indeed be useful. As I've said for another set of video lessons, PHP and MySQL (Video Training), this is for those people who need (or seem to need) human tutoring to learn a subject. As distinct from getting it off a book or website. In practical terms, the 17 hours on the DVDs have Deitel focusing on the basics of C#. The DVDs are not an exhaustive description of the language, but they don't need to be. If you can assimilate most of the videos, then you have a working knowledge of C#. Maybe not an expert and comprehensive knowledge. But enough to start useful coding.

The second DVD has a lesson on Silverlight. Microsoft recently developed it to combat Adobe. But I'm not entirely sure a lesson on it belongs in a set of C# basics. The other lessons on this DVD, like about polymorphism or collections are certainly germane to knowing C#. Silverlight isn't. It's more of an application level package. [Just so we're clear; this is not a comment about the efficacy of Silverlight vis a vis Adobe.]

If you get through the videos and want to graduate to a C# text, then consider Deitel's recent book, Visual C# 2008 How to Program (3rd Edition) (How to Program (Deitel)). Whether or not you get this book, I strongly suggest that you use some C# book to accompany the video. Because the video has one weakness. To get fluency, you need to work on C# problems. The format of the video does not lend easily to giving you many of these. Books are better for that. Along this line, perhaps instead of a lesson on Silverlight, how about substituting another lesson full of basic programming problems and their solutions.

If you are new to C# and Object Oriented programming, this tutorial is gana lead you step by step to understand what is object oriented programming and the meaning of Classes, Inheritance, Polymorphism and work with collection. I think Paul J.Deitel did a great job at this tutorial.

P.J. Deitel does an excellent job on this video I recomend this to even advance programmers. He goes over the fundamentals of good programming and that is lacking in todays world. While many of us say yes we do everything right our leaders want us to go faster write more code just do more and do it faster with less. So if you are brand new to developemnt and SDLC or if you have been at if for a while and if you want to relearn use this along with one of P.J. Deitel's programming books.

This was above what i was expecting. Deitel is a very good narrator, gives you the point that you need and know useless information, great examples that gets you understand perfectly what he is talking about. The coding that he shows just perfect and pro, you wont regret this buy in any way, pro's and beginners. Best articles that won this review is Inheritance and Polymorphism. Great Job LiveLessons!!!

Paul Deitel has done a superb job at presenting the material a developer needs to have as a foundation to go forward towards mastery of C#. Paul obviously loves teaching and brings excellence to training that few can match. If I were to attend a class in C# I would want it done in exactly the manner it is presented in these videos. Definitely a great buy and a welcome addition to my library. I have recommend these videos to other developers learning C# and they all have agreed that Paul provides excellence in training few can match.

I have been reading several books on programming and found that most books didn't do a good job of explaining the concepts clearly. I loved this book since it was easy to follow and the concepts were explained in detail.
The video is a must-see as it complements the concepts in the book.
This training really helped me learn how to program using C# and I highly recommend this product !!

They forget to mention that this "live lesson" is actually a follow along for the " C# 2008 for Programmers, 3/e " book. I'd say it is a prerequisite book for this video. He is using examples that are included on this DVD set, but without the C# 2008 Express edition, you can't really run them. So, if they would have mentioned this, I would have looked at alternatives. I don't believe the examples are compatible with Visual C# 2005 Express edition (at least not right out of the box!) How difficult would that piece of information have been to include in the sale sphiel for this product?

I also agree with the previous post, that a session on Silverlight seems like course developer's filler to enhance the "word count". C# 2008 FUNDAMENTALS.