From Java to C# [Paperback]

Glenn Rowe (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0321155726 | ISBN-13: 978-0321155726 | Publication Date: July 5, 2004

C# ('C Sharp') is an object-oriented, network-enabled programming language, developed expressly for Microsoft's .Net platform. C# provides the features that are most important to programmers: object-orientation, graphics, GUI components, multimedia, internet-based client/server networking and distributed computing. This book teaches C# to students who have already completed a course on Java/object oriented programming. This book will assume familiarity with object oriented programming basics, and only reviews these concepts when their C# implementations are discussed. The book starts by discussing the nuts and bolts of the C# language before delving into the area of the .Net libraries of code. It then moves on to GUI programming showing how GUI programs are created, and how to populate them with graphics. Advanced topics such as networking, using C# to interface with databases, and using C# with ASP to produce interactive web pages, are covered at the end of the book. The book will contain complete working programs and exercises at the end of each chapter.

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From the Back Cover

Are you familiar with Java or another OO language? Do you now want to develop programs using C#, or learn about the .Net framework? Then this book is for you.

Features

• Comprehensive coverage of C# as a stand-alone language

• The main features of .Net framework are explained, showing how C# can make use of them

• Advanced topics such as graphical interfaces and graphics, databases and XML are discussed

• Uses C# to produce and access interactive web pages
• An adventure game case study shows how to build a substantial program based around the topics covered

Glenn Rowe teaches at the University of Dundee and is the author of several books in the areas of Java, computer graphics and data structures.

Product Details

• Paperback: 688 pages
• Publisher: Addison Wesley (July 5, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321155726
• ISBN-13: 978-0321155726
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.8 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,219,492 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars no java transition explained, August 26, 2005

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arzewski (pittsburgh, pa United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: From Java to C# (Paperback)

The title caught my eye, thinking that this could be a book for an experienced java developer that wishes to transition to .NET development. Since the Java and .NET platforms are very similar, instead of having to thumb through one of those 1000-page tomes for beginners to extract the essence, and finding that, "ah, that's how this java thing I know so well is done equivalently in .NET", thus saving alot of time trying to filter out the obvious, well, this book comes short.

It is, after all, a beginner's book for C#. No java experience required. Too bad. (but it was interesting nonetheless...) Just that the title was misleading.