Beginning C# programming book?
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We have a database developer here who wants to teach herself .Net. She has no app programming background or training, so I think she could use essentially a beginner's programming book that uses C#. Can anyone recommend one? If anyone has experince teaching beginners using C#, can you give me any suggestions, lessons learned, etc? I've worked with java and c/c++ developers learning .Net/C#, but never someone who pretty much needs to learn from square one. Thanks!
She should learn ASP or VB first Cheers Marcello Turnbull
modified on Friday, March 20, 2009 2:52 PM
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We have a database developer here who wants to teach herself .Net. She has no app programming background or training, so I think she could use essentially a beginner's programming book that uses C#. Can anyone recommend one? If anyone has experince teaching beginners using C#, can you give me any suggestions, lessons learned, etc? I've worked with java and c/c++ developers learning .Net/C#, but never someone who pretty much needs to learn from square one. Thanks!
This is a good starter book and it's a free download. http://www.robmiles.com/c-yellow-book/Rob%20Miles%20CSharp%20Yellow%20Book%202008.pdf[^]
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.NET Book Zero by Charles Petzold[^] is even a free download.
I haven't read this one, but I have read other Petzold books on .NET and they sucked. The guy makes loads of mistakes and rarely communicates the bigger picture (meaning he has a tendency to make examples that are so artificial, they can't be used in any real code and he leaves blank how to do so. To slaughter a metaphor, he shows a horse a picture of a well and then strands it in the desert.)
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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She should learn ASP or VB first Cheers Marcello Turnbull
modified on Friday, March 20, 2009 2:52 PM
C++ ASP, not that ASP.NET stuff for lightweights.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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.NET Book Zero by Charles Petzold[^] is even a free download.
I don't think this book would help - it seems she's never programmed before. /ravi
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She should learn ASP or VB first Cheers Marcello Turnbull
modified on Friday, March 20, 2009 2:52 PM
You forgot the joke icon :)
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This is a good starter book and it's a free download. http://www.robmiles.com/c-yellow-book/Rob%20Miles%20CSharp%20Yellow%20Book%202008.pdf[^]
Thanks for this book recommendation ... I'm in a similar situation, in that I have the need to quickly get up to speed on C# for a work project ... modifying existing C#, not writing it from scratch :) I do have some experience programming in various languages, and even have written some OOP stuff (in a language no one uses any more, ha ha). So I'll be able to skip some of the more basic concepts ... but I've had no formal cs courses, so having the big picture will be helpful if I want to understand better the context of the code I'm reading. :thumbsup: jrd
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.NET Book Zero by Charles Petzold[^] is even a free download.
Yeah, it could be a good one, but it states it's for people who have some programming background. I'll keep it on my reference list, cuz I'm pretty sure it'll come in handy. We have lots of levels of inexperience among our developers. -- thanks.
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She should learn ASP or VB first Cheers Marcello Turnbull
modified on Friday, March 20, 2009 2:52 PM
Would that be kind of like teaching someone how to bake a cake by teaching them how to make toast? :-D
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This is a good starter book and it's a free download. http://www.robmiles.com/c-yellow-book/Rob%20Miles%20CSharp%20Yellow%20Book%202008.pdf[^]
Thanks, it looks like just what we were looking for!
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Would that be kind of like teaching someone how to bake a cake by teaching them how to make toast? :-D
No, actually it is teaching her how to break an egg before the chapter about baking a cake.:-) Cheers Marcello Turnbull