C# For Experienced Programmers (Deitel Developer Series) (Paperback)

~ Harvey M. Deitel (Author), Paul J. Deitel (Author), Jeffrey A. Listfield (Author), Tem R. Nieto (Author), Cheryl H. Yaeger (Author), Marina Zlatkina (Author)

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In C#: For Experienced Programmers, a team of world-renowned corporate trainers deliver an advanced guide to C# specifically focused on the features that give professional developers the greatest power. Harvey and Paul Deitel, whose best-selling textbooks have trained millions of developers worldwide, teach C#'s most powerful features using their unique Live-CodeaA A TM approach: every new concept is presented in the context of a complete, working example, immediately followed by windows showing exactly what the code does. The Deitels demonstrate how to make the most of C# object-oriented features such as inheritance and polymorphism, then offer expert guidance on building advanced GUIs with Windows Forms. They introduce XML programming with C#, cover multithreading, and present detailed coverage of files and streams, including a full chapter on networking with streams-based sockets and datagrams. The book includes practical techniques for enhancing database access; building Web applications and Web services; and utilizing .NET's powerful collection classes. There's no faster way for professional developers to leverage the full capabilities of Microsoft's flagship language for .N ET development!

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The practicing programmer's DEITEL LIVE-CODE guide toC# and the powerful Microsoft .NET Framework.

C# for Experienced Programmers is written for programmers with backgrounds in C++, Visual Basic, Java or other high-level languages, who want to learn C# through the intermediate level. If you already own C# How To Program, 1/e, you should not purchase C# for Experienced Programmers. However, you may be interested in our ASP .NET with C# for Experienced Programmers, which will be published in Summer 2003. Students should not purchase C# for Experienced Programmers. Instead, students should purchase C# How To Program, 1/e, as it contains self-review exercises and other ancillary materials suitable for self-study and classroom use. We also recommend that everyone consider The Complete C# Training Course, 1/e, which includes C# How to Program, 1/e and the C# Cyber Classroom--an interactive, multimedia, Windows-based CD-ROM. The Complete Training Course offers a great value and provides a powerful learning tool for readers who want to pursue C# programming through the intermediate level.

Written for programmers with a background in C++, Visual Basic, Java or other high-level languages, this book applies the DEITEL signature LIVE-CODE approach to teaching programming and explores Microsoft's C# language in depth. This book presents important C# concepts in the context of fully tested programs, complete with syntax shading, detailed line-by-line descriptions and program outputs. The book features 230 LIVE-CODE programs that contain 26,006 lines of proven C# program code. In addition, the book includes 402 programming tips that help you build applications that are portable, reusable and optimized for performance.

Start with a concise introduction to C # fundamentals, then rapidly move on to more advanced topics, including Windows Forms, ADO .NET, ASP .NET, ASP .NET Web services, network programming and XML processing. Along the way you will enjoy the Deitels' classic treatment of object-based and object-oriented programming. When you are finished, you will have everything you need to build next-generation Windows applications, Web applications and XML Web services.

Dr. Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel are the founders of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally recognized IT content-creation and corporate-training organization. Together with their colleagues at Deitel & Associates, Inc., they have written the successful How to Program Series of college textbooks that hundreds of thousands of students throughout the world have used to master C, C++, Java, C#, Visual Basic .NET, Perl, Python, XML, and other languages.The DEITEL Developer Series is designed for practicing programmers. The series presents focused treatments of emerging technologies, including .NET, J2EE, Web services, and more. Each book in the series contains the same LIVE-CODE teaching methodology used so successfully in the Deitels' How to Program Series college textbooks and instructor-led, corporate-training courses. The DEITEL Developer Series includes a wide selection of books suitable for three types of readers: A Technical Introduction Broad overviews of new technologies for programmers, technical managers and other technical professionals A Programmer's Introduction Focused treatments of programming fundamentals for practicing programmers and for novices For Experienced Programmers Detailed treatments of language topics for experienced programmersDEITEL TESTIMONIALS"Your book has sparked a passion in me for programming like no other."—Scott Haynes

"Comprehensive, coherent, clear, and just plain FUN to work through!"—James Huddleston

"I must say my favorite feature is the examples..."—Ben Schrooten

"I have read many books and taken many training courses over the past 20 years, but this stands out as the absolute best!"—Cindy Steele

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Product Details

• Paperback: 1456 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (July 25, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130461334
• ISBN-13: 978-0130461339
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 2.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #895,110 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Almost insulting, December 3, 2002

By	David Vick (Cleveland, Ohio) - See all my reviews

According to the authors the intended audience for this book is experienced programmers who want an in depth coverage of the material and very little if any introductory material. Sounds great, doesn't it? What they should have said was that the book is for experienced programmers who have never used Windows and never heard of, let alone used, an object oriented language. I guess they wrote this for experienced Unix shell programmers.

From the beginning of the text I was very disappointed to learn that their `deep' coverage included explaining things such as mouse clicks, double mouse clicks, how to move scroll bars in a window, and what all of those icons at the top of the IDE are (the toolbars). I found the rest of the text to be very repetitive, redundant, and they said the same things over and over again and again - not only that but they said the same things over and over, get it? At some points it was almost insulting to find out what they considered an experienced programmer didn't know. If you really are an experienced programmer then most of the first two chapters can be ignored, things like the history of the Internet are not needed as they've been covered in almost every beginner book already. About the only useful part would be the introduction to the IDE itself.

After the first couple of chapters it does get better and less demeaning but is still very repetitive, sentences like, "Allowing the IDE to create this code saves the programmer considerable development time. If the IDE did not provide the code, the programmer would have to write it, which would require a considerable amount of time." Are scattered throughout the book, often entire paragraphs repeat entire preceding paragraphs.

The book does have a lot of code examples to illustrate the current topic however a lot of it could be eliminated: as an experienced programmer the reader should know what a for loop is and a while loop. A simple explanation of how they work in C# would have sufficed. The full-blown code examples that they give, along with detailed explanations of the code, are just wasted. If you're an experienced programmer then you also don't need the 5-page (5 page!!!) example of how to calculate compound interest that is better suited to a beginner's book. Just tell me how to use the various structures in C# and then give me some detail on the advanced topics. The authors seem to have tried to write a book for every possible type of experienced programmer and in doing so have added quite a bit of material that simply isn't need for the majority of them. They made the book appealing to a very narrow audience of `experienced programmers'. In fact, with a little bit more introductory material, this would be an excellent beginner book. In the over 1300 pages of text the authors do cover a lot of material, the problem is that, had it been written concisely, or written to the audience that they specified, it would have been half of the size it currently is.

The material coverage seemed superficial and ill explained. I honestly did not enjoy reading this book; at times I was genuinely insulted by some of the explanations and code samples.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A .NET How To Book, January 11, 2003

By	Mr. Raymond Ovanessian "gen2k" (Westlake Village, Ca United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It's true. This is not an in depth book by any stretch, suprising given the title and the 1300 page volume. However, it's an extensive "How to" book. It covers many areas of .NET and provides, as another reviewer pointed out, a jump-start by showing you how to at least start, all the while providing many useful tips. If you buy the book with that in mind, you're going to be pleased, because given the number of topics covered it does a good job of getting you started on any of them. I don't believe any book on .NET can cover so many topics in depth. For instance, take the fine explanation of AutoEventWireUp in this book, a property that you are likely to see in all VS.NET generated ASP.NET pages, and look for an equivalent explanation in your own ASP.NET book. Two of the four highly rated ASP.NET books I own do not provide ANY explanation of this important property, and the other has an incomplete description.

Having read about a dozen .NET books, it's obvious that the subject is so vast and revolutionary that many authors are unable to provide full coverage even when they focus on one of the three main technologies. Even the best focused books will leave critical holes in your knowledge, even more so when they try to cover many topics in depth. With that in mind, the author of this book has chosen a different startegy, one of covering many topics with rudimentary explanations of key concepts, tips, and a multitude of examples to at least get you going and thinking in the right direction.

Read "C# Primer Plus" first, then read this book, then "Application Development Using C# and .NET". Then you can branch off on any number of possible directions with 2-4 additional books on the subject of your interest. Don't expect one or two or three to cover all that you are going to need to know!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for switching languages, November 30, 2003

By	"reeves314" (Belleville, IL United States) - See all my reviews

It is true. This book is NOT intended for those who have programmed in C++ or Java before. However, those are not the only programming languages still used today. C, which does not have object oriented programming is still taught to beginners, and Python is very popular in the open source code, as well as Perl. Thus the title of the book is not "C# for Experienced C++ or Java Programmers" but merely "C# for Experienced Programmers." Yes, they teach the basics, yes, they explain everything, and yes, they give a lot of code with NO CD. But, half way through the book, you can already start writing marketable programs. When you are done, you will be able to write program that run on ASP, or XML and use networked with TCP and UDP. What more could you ask for? Any additional information I would only expect from a book entitled "C# for Expert Programmers." However, if you have ever programmed before, this book will get you up to speed soon, and have you doing things you wouldn't dream of before you know it.