The book is good in that it's consistent with the series title - "for the absolute beginner." 1) As discussed in earlier reviews, some of the example code is a bit hard to follow because they're snippets and you're not entirely sure what changes were made unless you flip back a few pages to manually/visually compare. 2) Apparently they didn't have budget for a tech editor. This book has more editorial errors than any other book I've ever read, by multitudes. Bottom of page 42 reads "Console.WriteLine("5f/4f = {0}", 5f/4f);" but it should read "Console.WriteLine("5/4 = {0}", 5f/4f);". Bottom of page 45 in the "In the Real World" box reads "Converting numeric data to strings..." but should read "Converting strings to numeric data...". Page 50, 3rd paragraph reads "Please notice that the equality operator is two quote signs, not one." But it should read "...two equals signs, not one." Page 54, middle of the page, reads "is equivalent to the following code, which contains a switch statement:" but it should be "...an if statement:". Page 106, second paragraph reads "...put a variable declaration inside the quotes that follow the method's name" but "quotes" should be replaced with "parentheses". Countless times throughout the book, the text says "main method", but it should be "Main method". Page 122 section headers and throughout the text he uses "get()" and "set()" but it should be "get{}" and "set{}". Page 114 and 117 the code is "public string name", while on page 124 he (correctly) writes "public string Name". The difference here is between the lowercase "name" and uppercase "Name", but the irony is that his hint at the bottom of page 124 reads "[By]...convention...Public entities begin with an uppercase letter, and private ones begin with a lowercase." All of these errors are within the first 4 chapters of a total of 11. The frequency of errors is baffling. Some of these errors don't make a difference, they're just sloppy. Other errors, like using () for get/set instead of {}, using double quotes instead of double equals, and declaring a variable in quotes as opposed to parentheses, will not be able to compile correctly and will cause errors.
Overall, the book is good for beginners with respect to content and approach. However, the amount of errors is highly distracting and makes me second-guess the author (though, again, I should probably place the blame on a tech editor). In general, I would guess that most books (fiction, non-fiction, all types) may have 1-2 errors FOR THE WHOLE BOOK. This book, if you count the same error each time (e.g., "main method" and "get()/set()") probably has an error rate of 1-2 errors PER PAGE.
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