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I just bought O'Reilly book "C#10 in a Nutshell" It is 1024 pages long!!!! :mad: :mad: :confused: :confused: :wtf: :wtf: If that is a "nutshell", then I am an elephant. BTW: I only weigh 215llbs. About 97.75 kilos for you east ponders.
The last real programming book I bought was Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008! IIRC it weighs in at 1400 pages...not light reading for sure! :laugh: The point is, I haven't had a need for printed material in the last 14 years. My bookshelf is full of programming books from my first 16 years in the trade, mostly from that era where online resources were either non-existent or not available on demand. Like it or not, Google (search engines in general) has completely transformed how I do my job, from learning something new to fixing bugs, many times both. Answers, articles, and video tutorials abound for just about anything you need. I hate to admit it, but there are many times where it's quicker/easier to find a code example online than in my own codebase! :laugh: The downside of this is that I constantly have to look up trivial stuff! Of course this has nothing to do with the fact that on any given day I might be working in multiple 'languages'. (if you count sql and javascript/css) Hmm, 1024 pages...do you think that number was a coincidence? :)
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Just another of God's little jokes then. What a card he is.
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The last real programming book I bought was Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008! IIRC it weighs in at 1400 pages...not light reading for sure! :laugh: The point is, I haven't had a need for printed material in the last 14 years. My bookshelf is full of programming books from my first 16 years in the trade, mostly from that era where online resources were either non-existent or not available on demand. Like it or not, Google (search engines in general) has completely transformed how I do my job, from learning something new to fixing bugs, many times both. Answers, articles, and video tutorials abound for just about anything you need. I hate to admit it, but there are many times where it's quicker/easier to find a code example online than in my own codebase! :laugh: The downside of this is that I constantly have to look up trivial stuff! Of course this has nothing to do with the fact that on any given day I might be working in multiple 'languages'. (if you count sql and javascript/css) Hmm, 1024 pages...do you think that number was a coincidence? :)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
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I just bought O'Reilly book "C#10 in a Nutshell" It is 1024 pages long!!!! :mad: :mad: :confused: :confused: :wtf: :wtf: If that is a "nutshell", then I am an elephant. BTW: I only weigh 215llbs. About 97.75 kilos for you east ponders.
It's one more proof, if one was needed, how simple is C#, in a Nutshell! :D Seriously, I love C#, I do think it's simple and elegant. But as I reflect on my.... 20 years opf working with.. I realized, over time, well.. there is so much to learn to really master it! :O :/ However, while the syntax had lots of additional complexity added since the day of C# 1.0 (generics, auto enumerable with yield, async/await, LINQ, lambda, pattern matching) the pure syntax is still relatively simple. What really gets you is the numerous essential API to do various task, such as Web App, Desktop APP (like 4 type of Windows desktop app?), console app, phone app, game, etc... :)
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Some things have larger nutshells, I guess. Just make sure you memorize that book, because it's just the basics you need to know to get started. :rolleyes:
it's a coconut!!
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I just bought O'Reilly book "C#10 in a Nutshell" It is 1024 pages long!!!! :mad: :mad: :confused: :confused: :wtf: :wtf: If that is a "nutshell", then I am an elephant. BTW: I only weigh 215llbs. About 97.75 kilos for you east ponders.
You lost an opportunity to say 'It is only a byte long!' Bim - tish!
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I just bought O'Reilly book "C#10 in a Nutshell" It is 1024 pages long!!!! :mad: :mad: :confused: :confused: :wtf: :wtf: If that is a "nutshell", then I am an elephant. BTW: I only weigh 215llbs. About 97.75 kilos for you east ponders.
edit - You lost an opportunity to say "It is a bit over a byte long!"
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I just bought O'Reilly book "C#10 in a Nutshell" It is 1024 pages long!!!! :mad: :mad: :confused: :confused: :wtf: :wtf: If that is a "nutshell", then I am an elephant. BTW: I only weigh 215llbs. About 97.75 kilos for you east ponders.
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I just bought O'Reilly book "C#10 in a Nutshell" It is 1024 pages long!!!! :mad: :mad: :confused: :confused: :wtf: :wtf: If that is a "nutshell", then I am an elephant. BTW: I only weigh 215llbs. About 97.75 kilos for you east ponders.
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Maybe "C# on a grain of rice" would be more to your liking?
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I just bought O'Reilly book "C#10 in a Nutshell" It is 1024 pages long!!!! :mad: :mad: :confused: :confused: :wtf: :wtf: If that is a "nutshell", then I am an elephant. BTW: I only weigh 215llbs. About 97.75 kilos for you east ponders.
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Slow Eddie wrote:
It is 1024 pages long!!!!
Wow!
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?" -- Rigoletto
Yes. And I am trying to get through it in a couple of weeks. Like trying to take a drink out of a firehose. :sigh: :-O
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Yes. And I am trying to get through it in a couple of weeks. Like trying to take a drink out of a firehose. :sigh: :-O
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I just bought O'Reilly book "C#10 in a Nutshell" It is 1024 pages long!!!! :mad: :mad: :confused: :confused: :wtf: :wtf: If that is a "nutshell", then I am an elephant. BTW: I only weigh 215llbs. About 97.75 kilos for you east ponders.
Actually, it's about 20 pages or so of C#; the rest is the "framework" / class libraries.
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