C# 2008 for Programmers

by Paul J. Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel

A comprehensive tutorial to the C# programming language, for programmers who are new to C# and to object-oriented programming. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0137144156
• ISBN13: 9780137144150
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
• Length: 1251 Pages
• Weight: 4.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.9" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

One of the Best C# Books I've Ever Owned

For me this is a must have in your C# book collection. Whether or not you're a beginner or seasoned, it doesn't matter. I've bought a lot of C# books in last few years and this book by far is one of the best to explain not only what these are but good common real-world uses for delegates, Interfaces, and Generic Classes, Lambdas, Methods, etc. While some of the examples are not real-world business scenarios, they do get across the reasons why to use something that is still applicable sometimes in the real-world apps you are developing. I like the author's teaching style. It's simple, clear, and effective. This is really a good book to compliment Head First C# and other books that just don't cover the advanced topics very well at all, especially applications on when you might want to use them in a real-world development environment or just a list of scenarios in how something like an interface or delegate can be used outside of just event handlers for example with delegates which is not the only reason to use them! Other high quality books I highly recommend to add in addition to this book to really get you up to speed in C# and best practices are: * C# in Depth: What you need to master C# 2 and 3 by Jon Skeet * Effective C# by Bill Wagner * Effective C# (Covers C# 4.0): 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C# * More Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C# by Bill Wagner

Excellent Book to Jump Start Your Knowledge

I was once an experienced developer whose skills have lagged due to non technical (Project Management) assignments. This book is an easy read that builds the readers knowledge at a pace that while rapid is not too fast to understand. I highly recommend this book as a starting point for C# training.

Deitel books are reallly good.

I have read many Deitel books and I would recommend Deitel any time. This book specifically though, it is very well written, great examples and since its color it helps to read the code better. Yes there are many C# books out there but this one specifically I loved because it covers many technologies including WPF, Silverlight, LINQ, WCF and gives you in depth examples on how to use them with C#. It is an all around great book. The first few chapters of the book are really oriented to the beginners into .NET programming so it is not only for advanced users. Although it covers many topics and technologies it is not the best book to master a specific technology or C#. There are better books that are focused in advanced techniques. But if you're goal is to learn enough and get you started with C# 3.5 and technologies that work with it this is the book to get.

Excellent learning tool

I own a number of C# 2008 books, and this is the best of the lot. The language is introduced in a very logical manner, each chapter building on the previous, which you would think would be the norm, but isn't always. The code examples always work, again as you would expect but doesn't always happen, with the exception of two minor formatting glitches: code examples for console code need a 'Console.Readline();' statement to prevent the program(s) from terminating too fast to read, and the display format shown does not always agree with that you'll find on the screen. The first is serious if you're not already familiar enough with C# to know to add the code, and the second is minor. I can highly recommend this book as a learning tool without equivocation as the book flows from topic to topic better than any other C# book I've read. It really is that good. Additionally the book does a very good job of introducing the subject of "How do I take my idea for what I want to do and turn it into code?" through the use of UML diagrams and very well-detailed examples and explanations of their ATM project. The book may not be for experienced C# programmers - it starts quite fundamental - but would be a good book for anyone wanting to learn C# who already has some programming experience in another language. What I really liked in this book: First, every code example is followed by a detailed line-by-line explanation of what the code does and how it works, done much better than any other code book I've ever read. Even if you have some experience in C# you'll learn something you didn't know or knew and didn't understand in context, every time. Second, every other C# book I have seems to start out simple, then slams you with at least one chapter of "C# vocabulary" that you'll have to memorize before you can understand the rest of that chapter or the rest of the book. In this book you'll learn the same vocabulary, but it's introduced within the context of the code in the examples. One other nice touch: the example code comments include "end method xxxx", "end If", "end class" etc following each related structure. Sure, if you already know C# this is fluff and unnecessary. But if you're new to C# these reminders teach and reinforce the structure names without beating you over the head; you'll learn the names and uses as you need them and as you develop the ability to use them effectively, not as a memorization precursor before learning how to program them. It may seem a subtle difference, but it's very effective, imho. I'm looking forward to reading the other books they've written. Their method of teaching is superior to any other programming language books I've read on any language. They have a winning formula in their format here.