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I'm looking for a good book for C#. I'm an experienced developer...have programmed in C, C++, Java, VB, and Delphi. I was looking at the Accelerated C# 2008 or Pro C# 2008 by Apress and the Professional C# 2008 by wrox. Anyone have any opinions on these books or other suggestions? Thank you in advance.
Anyone have any opinions on these books or other suggestions? I go for the jugular. Read the books written by the author(s) of the language, so you understand why certain things are done, whether you agree or not. I found this invaluable when I was learning C++ and as well, learning C#. All the rest is just pansy fluff. Sadly, Anders Hejlsberg's books are not of the same quality as Bjarne Stroustrup's, IMO, and I'm sorely disappointed that Hejlsberg appears to have foresaken writing good content and instead is doing Channel9 webcasts, blogs and PowerPoint presentations about C# 3.0 rather than providing us programmers with a decent tome. And come to think of it, that's partly why I'm rather disenchanted with C# 3.0. Marc
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I'm looking for a good book for C#. I'm an experienced developer...have programmed in C, C++, Java, VB, and Delphi. I was looking at the Accelerated C# 2008 or Pro C# 2008 by Apress and the Professional C# 2008 by wrox. Anyone have any opinions on these books or other suggestions? Thank you in advance.
You might find this[^] book by Jesse Liberty helpful. I'd also look at the MSDN tutorials[^] when you want to focus in a specific area. Good luck! Coming from a Java background, I think you'll really enjoy the .NET framework! /ravi
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You might find this[^] book by Jesse Liberty helpful. I'd also look at the MSDN tutorials[^] when you want to focus in a specific area. Good luck! Coming from a Java background, I think you'll really enjoy the .NET framework! /ravi
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> Anders Hejlsberg's books are not of the same quality as Bjarne Stroustrup's, IMO To be fair, none of the CLR or Java books will ever be of same quality, the reason they will keep implementing the runtime and the languages that cannpt be "bootstrapped into a language" without proper machine abstraction. Which Stroustrup is undoubtedly the only soul on earth worth following on; and he is getting better as he gets older IMO and new blood he has engaged are as careful and promising as he ever was. I still get a shock now and again on the kind of things he was thinking about before Java or AOP ever existed.
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I'm looking for a good book for C#. I'm an experienced developer...have programmed in C, C++, Java, VB, and Delphi. I was looking at the Accelerated C# 2008 or Pro C# 2008 by Apress and the Professional C# 2008 by wrox. Anyone have any opinions on these books or other suggestions? Thank you in advance.
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You might find this[^] book by Jesse Liberty helpful. I'd also look at the MSDN tutorials[^] when you want to focus in a specific area. Good luck! Coming from a Java background, I think you'll really enjoy the .NET framework! /ravi
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Ed.Poore wrote:
it looks like I may be going the opposite way...
Bummer. :( I must say I much prefer working in .NET than Java. Imho, the tools are orders of magnitude better and the .NET framework is powerful and fairly well organized. /ravi
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> Anders Hejlsberg's books are not of the same quality as Bjarne Stroustrup's, IMO To be fair, none of the CLR or Java books will ever be of same quality, the reason they will keep implementing the runtime and the languages that cannpt be "bootstrapped into a language" without proper machine abstraction. Which Stroustrup is undoubtedly the only soul on earth worth following on; and he is getting better as he gets older IMO and new blood he has engaged are as careful and promising as he ever was. I still get a shock now and again on the kind of things he was thinking about before Java or AOP ever existed.
Is this the first misthreaded post in the new CP??? Marc
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I'm looking for a good book for C#. I'm an experienced developer...have programmed in C, C++, Java, VB, and Delphi. I was looking at the Accelerated C# 2008 or Pro C# 2008 by Apress and the Professional C# 2008 by wrox. Anyone have any opinions on these books or other suggestions? Thank you in advance.
Apart from books this link is worth perusing, although more so if you'd not yet used a "managed" language. It's out-of-date now but still useful. C++ -> C#: What You Need to Know to Move from C++ to C#[^]
Kevin
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Is this the first misthreaded post in the new CP??? Marc
It's the first one I've seen, but I haven't been around here much of late.
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Is this the first misthreaded post in the new CP??? Marc
Can't be, because that *sure* was fixed :)
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Ed.Poore wrote:
it looks like I may be going the opposite way...
Bummer. :( I must say I much prefer working in .NET than Java. Imho, the tools are orders of magnitude better and the .NET framework is powerful and fairly well organized. /ravi
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Same here but there are two reasons I'm looking forward to it: 1) Looks to be an interesting project, AI research at Imperial College London 2) My phone (N95) has the mobile Java platform on it so it'll be interesting to program that. Been thinking of a bluetooth remote for Vista Media Center... But I do love programming in .NET particularly with LINQ, not any data projects as such but by making coding so much simpler. I prefer "hacking" style programming to enterprise style.
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I'm looking for a good book for C#. I'm an experienced developer...have programmed in C, C++, Java, VB, and Delphi. I was looking at the Accelerated C# 2008 or Pro C# 2008 by Apress and the Professional C# 2008 by wrox. Anyone have any opinions on these books or other suggestions? Thank you in advance.
Charles Petzold has a free ebook on his site that will get you up and running with C#. It's called DotNet Chapter Zero and is available at his website (http://www.charlespetzold.com/[^]). It's written for people with a background in C/C++/Java programming. It covers the basics, but it will get you started pretty quickly. Flynn
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Ed.Poore wrote:
it looks like I may be going the opposite way...
Bummer. :( I must say I much prefer working in .NET than Java. Imho, the tools are orders of magnitude better and the .NET framework is powerful and fairly well organized. /ravi
This is your brain on Celcius Home | Music | Articles | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
Imho, the tools are orders of magnitude better
No longer... My have been the case 5-6 years back. I think is some aspects (refactoring) Java tools are far better than VS 2008/2005
Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
the .NET framework is powerful and fairly well organized.
I am not sure wther I will buy into that. :) There are pros and cons either way. For example, I hate that Java date and time management is not so easy. At the same time I like that Java had good collection classes (until .NET 3.5).
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
Imho, the tools are orders of magnitude better
No longer... My have been the case 5-6 years back. I think is some aspects (refactoring) Java tools are far better than VS 2008/2005
Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
the .NET framework is powerful and fairly well organized.
I am not sure wther I will buy into that. :) There are pros and cons either way. For example, I hate that Java date and time management is not so easy. At the same time I like that Java had good collection classes (until .NET 3.5).