Recommended Books

ahmed_toyin

I am new to the programming world. I will appreciate if some can recommend/advice on which book one can get to learn C# and SQL Presently, am a systems support engineer on windows platform.Needed the skill to improve on my network infra design. Any tips/advice on how to learn C# and SQL will be appreciated. thx Endless is the Quest for Knowledge

James Gupta

There are books for learning to become a MCAD (microsoft certified apps dev), but they are actually good beginners books. For C# / Sql, try Amit Khalani's MCAD 70-616 Training Guide, its really simple, yet gets a lot of info across just-code-it.net Managed DirectX & C# Tutorials

Drew McGhie

Jesse Liberty's "Programming C#" on O'Reilly Press. Get the updated version for .NET 2.0. Its really written for programmers who want to learn C#, rather than people who want to learn how to program using C#. It was the book my C# professor used, and it is a WONDERFUL reference. In addition, anyting in the Microsoft .NET Development Series helps. I have their books on ADO.NET and data binding in windows forms. Also, the articles here on codeproject are great too. I've definetely used a couple to learn what I need to overcome some issues I've had. Good luck. -- modified at 16:45 Tuesday 30th May, 2006 On Amazon: Programming C#[^] OR Learning C#[^] if you think that might be better.

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James Gupta wrote:

they are actually good beginners books.

They are, but ironically they aren't sufficient for becoming MCAD :laugh:. Coulda, woulda, shoulda doesn't matter if you don't. :beer:
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