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Simply C#: An Application-Driven™ Tutorial Approach

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This book is very good on teaching the basics of C#, and makes you think a bit. The tutorial driven approach enables you actually get experience in every chapter ( at the end of every chapter are good exercises). The problem is that you do not have the answers to the excercises available unless you have the Teacher edition ( this is a classroom book ) , and Deitel will not help you out in this area ( say if you are stuck on an excercise ).There are also 'Programming Challenges' at the end of every chapter that have you use command and concepts that you have yet to learn ( not in all but some ). Other than that, this tutorial is very good, just bad customer service from the authors.

If you are new to C# and has no experience with other C based languages (C, C++, Java), then this book should be the first book you should read. All the rudimentry concepts are explained in detail. The practice problems are marvelous. The author, unlike most programming authors, clearly understands the paramount importance of writing practice programs to learn a new computer language.

If you want to have a heavy duty understanding of ADO, ASP, and OOP, then this book will come up short. But there are other books in the market that will fill that niche.

I love books like this. This was a great teaching aide. If you are new to C# and somewhat new to Visual Studio.Net, then this book is for you. Each chapter is a tutorial which builds on the chapter before it. They give you a problem at the beginning of the chapter and then walk you through on how to solve that problem throughout the chapter, with the completed program at the end. Also as they walk through the chapter they are explaining the concepts that it takes to build the program and the concepts build on each other chapter by chapter.

They also have challenges at the end of each chapter, maximizing the use of the concepts. The thing that I did not like is that if you are self-teaching yourself and get stuck on those challenges, then there is no solution or help. I used this book in a classroom, so I was able get assistance. Also we found many typos in the book that should be corrected.

I hope that the author, Dietel makes more books like this for other languages minus the typos.

If you are like me and need to have 'hands-on' practice to learn new things, then this is the book for you. Lots of code with concise and detailed explanation of all the concepts being presented. A step by step tutorial with each exercise building on the previous one. You become 'immersed' in the code with the end result that you actually learn something.

I would say that this book would be the step after Deitel's C# How to Program. The concepts in this book are more mathmatic then what is in How to Program.

In essance I found explanations of most of the concepts vague.

If you are just beginning to program, then i would say do the How to Program first and Simply C# after. You should be able to write some decent programs and head into an ADO or ASP .net book from there.

Product was exactly what I wanted. Cheap, good condition, and shipped it to me fast! Thank you!

For the authors of Simply C#. A note from a guy who programs for the challenge and fun of it. I am in chapter 32 of Simply C#. Bravo for a wonderful learning experience! I have seen (and bought) lots of Programming Books (Basic, C, C++) over the years, yours in number ONE on my list..Wow..it is a joy to work with..Thanks..Thomas J. McGrail. Longs, SC