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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Reads well and is a bargain at $35, September 10, 2003
Review by Aaron J. Young for CodeGuru.com:If you're new to programming or have little experience, Teach Yourself C# is a great beginner's book. With it's course-like layout, the material is split into 3 weeks of 7 lessons/days, each covering a new but related topic, allowing the reader to pace him or herself and actually absorb what's being read without becoming overwhelmed by new concepts as is the case with many other "tutorial" books. Teach Yourself C# in 21 Days covers all the topics needed to get you going in C#. You learn, step-by-step, the development lifecycle, programming fundamentals; like structure and program flow, statements, expressions and storage types. Object orientated design concepts are covered in sufficient detail, like inheritance, polymorphism and encapsulation. This includes coverage of the most common .NET Classes such as the Math routines, Files and Streams. Each day ends with a summary, followed by a Q and A section where the author attempts to answer some common questions on the covered subjects, this is then followed by a Workshop consisting of a quiz and exercises designed to reinforce what has just been learnt. There are also plenty of code listings through out the book, including several "Type and Run" listings, implementing the discussed materials making it easy to follow and understand what's being taught. It's worth mentioning that this book doesn't just stop at covering the basics of C#, it also covers ADO.NET and even designing Web Services and ASP.NET pages to a point where you can actually get something up and running and feel comfortable about how it was done. The book is aimed at beginning to intermediate programmers, if you're in the intermediate range, but new to .NET, you'll find weeks 2 and 3 the most interesting, week 1, which is peppered with programming fundamentals does a fantastic job of preparing you for what's to come in the other 2 weeks. Overall Teach Yourself C# in 21 Days is a must for those starting out on the .NET path, it gives you a very thorough understanding of the core language and brings you to a point where you'll be developing meaningful applications almost immediately. A CD-ROM comes with the book and contains all the code listings organized by day as well as other tools and utilities, like the .NET framework v1.1/SDK, "SharpDevelop" - a free, open source, development environment for .NET and "Mono" - an open source implementation of the .NET framework for Linux. There's so much useful information crammed into this book and yet it's done in a format that won't leave you scratching your head, it reads well and is a bargain at $35 - highly recommended.
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