C# and Algorithmic Thinking for the Complete Beginner: Learn to Think Like a Programmer [Print Replica] Kindle Edition

I have recently changed job roles and find that I now need to do the programming that before I left to others while I focused on design issues. It has been twenty years since my last required programming class on Fortran for my engineering degree. It is a bit daunting to start programming at this point in my career. In some ways I lucked out that the language of choice was C# as it lead me to this book. I picked up a couple of books on C# and I also tried the Microsoft Virtual Academy free course on C# by Bob Tabor. Ultimately the Why's of what was being done were not addressed to my liking or in the case of MVA free course there wasn't a problem set for me to learn through excersizes. This book is designed around C# but more importantly to introducing programming and explaining the how, what and why plus give the individual using the book an opportunity to try to code and learn by doing.
This book can be used in an introductory course as a very good subliment or can be use by someone trying to learn programming on their own. For someone like myself that is coming back to learn the language and syntax it didn't feel slow because the basics of how to design code are emphasized. It is likely that a beginning programmer might finish this book and then redo it 6 months later and pick up on points they missed the first time through.
The best part is that there are problems to work on and solve. Some are done with you through the book and others are worked out and can be found at the author's website so you can check your work. The book doesn't introduce you to Microsoft Visual Studios Community Edition until Chapter 9, which probably makes sense from an introduction to programming standpoint, but if you have some familiarity with software, try working through the early chapters in Visual Studios, it is good practice and likely will reduce syntax mistakes if you start after chapter 9. Combined with Stackoverflow, Google and a bit of elbow grease this is a great primer. Compared to some other beginner books, what I found useful was the focus put into each chapter and that they are kept relatively short but there are plenty of problem sets to work out. I will still be a novice to programming when I finish this book, but I will feel comfortable trying to code and ultimately that will be the success that I can attribute to this book.

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good read

I had a high hopes for this book (series?), but half way trough i found out that this is the type or style of "teaching/ presenting/ thinking" which i absolutely HATE ! It is one of those ...Hi i am your 'Friend' (as a beginner ) at first but then it backstabs you from every possible corner as if it tottaly forgot that it was meant for absolute BEGINNERS !!!! Trowing at you huge amount of 'do it yourself' exercises with minimal explanation to begin with and still expects that in back of your mind reader will consider it as "beginner" material ..... Disappointed beyond every red line! Good thing is i didn't buy it, thanks to Amazon it was on Unlimited read, so it gave me a chance to save unnecessary expenses (waste of time tho)....