Newbie book for new to C# and OO
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I am trying to help a friend...young guy who lives over in UK. He is starting to learn C# and I'm helping him. He has a little bit of experience in straight C, but even not too much there to be honest. He is trying to learn C#, but from what I've worked with him so far he is really struggling more with the OO concept more than the language in general. For a book, he has "Beginning Visual C#" (a wrox book). However, from what he's told me...they don't back up enough for somebody totally unfamiliar with OO concepts. What would be a good totally beginner C# book that goes into OO pretty well, and even better if they forget about forms for now and just do console program examples. Are there any books like that? All the books I have are a bit more advanced, and aren't suitable for him. Can anyone give some suggestions?
There are only 10 types of people in this world....those that understand binary, and those that do not.
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I am trying to help a friend...young guy who lives over in UK. He is starting to learn C# and I'm helping him. He has a little bit of experience in straight C, but even not too much there to be honest. He is trying to learn C#, but from what I've worked with him so far he is really struggling more with the OO concept more than the language in general. For a book, he has "Beginning Visual C#" (a wrox book). However, from what he's told me...they don't back up enough for somebody totally unfamiliar with OO concepts. What would be a good totally beginner C# book that goes into OO pretty well, and even better if they forget about forms for now and just do console program examples. Are there any books like that? All the books I have are a bit more advanced, and aren't suitable for him. Can anyone give some suggestions?
There are only 10 types of people in this world....those that understand binary, and those that do not.
I really like C# and the .NET Platform by Andrew Troelsen. The 2nd edition just came out. It does a pretty good job discussing OO. C# and the .NET Platform by Andrew Troelsen[^]
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I am trying to help a friend...young guy who lives over in UK. He is starting to learn C# and I'm helping him. He has a little bit of experience in straight C, but even not too much there to be honest. He is trying to learn C#, but from what I've worked with him so far he is really struggling more with the OO concept more than the language in general. For a book, he has "Beginning Visual C#" (a wrox book). However, from what he's told me...they don't back up enough for somebody totally unfamiliar with OO concepts. What would be a good totally beginner C# book that goes into OO pretty well, and even better if they forget about forms for now and just do console program examples. Are there any books like that? All the books I have are a bit more advanced, and aren't suitable for him. Can anyone give some suggestions?
There are only 10 types of people in this world....those that understand binary, and those that do not.
I just finished Tom Archer's Inside C#[^] and I thought it was a great read. It covered basic OO design concepts, and how they apply to the C# language. Great for beginners, and has enough substance for an intermediate-type guy like myself. Definitely worth a look... -Mike Zinni "No shit it's tough. If it wasn't, everybody and their sister would be an engineer and then you wouldn't have a job."