C# How to Program (Paperback)

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

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Completely updated to reflect the recent changes in ANSI Standard C++. Contains hundreds of exercises, and thousands of lines of working code with valuable insights into good programming practices. Softcover.

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The authoritative DEITEL™ LIVE-CODE™ introduction to Windows®, .NET, Internet and World Wide Web programming in C#

This new book by the world's leading programming-language textbook authors carefully explains how to use C#—the premier language in Microsoft's .NET initiative—as a general-purpose programming language, and how to develop multi-tier, client/server, data-base-intensive, Internet- and Web-based applications.

Dr. Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel are the founders of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally-recognized corporate-training and content-creation organization specializing in C#, Visual Basic® .NET, Visual C++® .NET, Java™, C++, C, XML™, Python, Perl; Internet, Web, wireless, e-business and object technologies. The Deitels are the authors of several worldwide #1 programming-language textbooks, including Java How to Program, 4/e, C++ How to Program, 3/e and Internet & World Wide Web How to Program, 2/e.

In C# How to Program the Deitels and their colleagues, Jeff Listfield, Tem. R. Nieto, Cheryl Yaeger and Marina Zlatkina, discuss topics you need to build complete .NET, Web-based applications. Key topics include:

• .NET Introduction/IDE/Debugger
• Web Services/ASP.NET
• Control Structures/Methods/Properties
• Classes/Data Abstraction
• OOP/Inheritance/Polymorphism
• Arrays/Data Structures/Collections
• Database/ADO .

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Product Details

• Paperback: 1568 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1ST edition (December 14, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130622214
• ISBN-13: 978-0130622211
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #453,480 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, worth the price, April 4, 2002

By	Hector A Garcia (San Ramon, CA USA) - See all my reviews

I had been looking for a C# book which also took care of teaching to exploit all the benefits of the .Net framework. I had stumbled with some books that were too inclined to either the language itself or the .net framework, but this book keeps a good balance between these two topics.

I purchased Professional C# from Wrox, but I saw too many typos in the text and even worse in the code!, so I went ahead and returned it later. I decided to spend some time at the bookstore comparing books and after much deliberation this one won me. I think it was a little bit expensive but it was worth it since it includes clear explanations, visual representation of what the samples do and how they work and best of all, it covers may topics I was interested in like XML, SOAP, Web Services, ASP.NET, etc.

I even liked the two color schema (red and black) in which it is printed.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Needs some work, March 15, 2003

By	Thomas Paul (Plainview, NY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Deitel books have been getting better and better with each new release. The later editions of "Java How To Program" were a vast improvement over the early editions of the book. Taking that experience, Deitel published this, their first C# book, in December 2001. The result is a mix of good and not so good. The overall approach to the topic is the standard Deitel method of covering topics in-depth with plenty of code samples. Anyone familiar with their C++ or Java books will recognize the Deitel formula immediately. In this case, the book suffers a little from being a first edition. The book covers all the main topics of the C# language, explains how to use Visual Studio, gives a primer on object oriented programming, and touches upon some advanced topics such as ADO, ASP, and web services. The book does have a feel of being rushed, however. Some of the examples seem either overly contrived or unnecessarily confusing. In some cases the explanations of the code are incomplete. For some reason, Deitel chose to print this book using only black and red instead of the multi-color print used in their Java books. Overall, this book is one of the better introductory C# books. It covers a much wider array of topics than many of the other C# books available and in general it covers them reasonably well. The CD does not include a student or demo copy of Visual Studio.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good practice problems, October 31, 2003

By	Jaewoo Kim (Santa Monica, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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Contrary to what some say about this book, this book is not for the beginners. Yes, it does cover lot of basic concepts, but they are tuned for those who already have a fundamental understanding of C#, Java, or C++ (all related to C). What separates this book from others is its practice problems. The best way to learn programming is to practice, and this book provides enough practice problems to really enhance one's understanding of C#. Highly recommmended for intermediate level C# developers.