C# for Programmers

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

A guide to the C# features that give professionals the greatest power, utilizing the Live-Code approach to rapid mastery. Coverage includes: XML programming; networking; multithreading; ADO.NET;... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131345915
• ISBN13: 9780131345911
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
• Length: 1317 Pages
• Weight: 4.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.5" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great book

This book is very comprehensive yet thorough for programmers who are new to C#. I enjoy the nice explanation of XML concepts at the conclusion of most of the early chapters although I have only read up to chapter 7. If you are late on the concept of object-oriented programming, it also gives a detailed explanation of how real-life objects can be applied to programming (go figure the concept object oriented-programming).

A persective

This book is a good blend of computer science and programming C#. I especially appreciated the treatment of UML. Of course, like any other book of this nature, it can't teach all you need there is to know on the subject. It is a very good starting point for learning programming. It's up to the reader to take the knowledge gained from the Deitel book and build upon it. Overall this is a very good book.

C# for Programmers

A complete training and reference book for C# programming. This book provides detailed examples and references of source code, explanation of problem domains, UML, and the C# programming language in a clear and complete process for experienced or student programmers.

A powerful and comprehensive guide

The weighty C# For Programmers by Harvey M. Dietel and Paul J. Dietel appears in its updated second edition to provide a powerful and comprehensive guide - over 1,300 pages worth - for any programming in C#. You must be a programmer with a solid background in C++, Java, or other high-level languages: this handbook applies the Dietel signature live-code approach to teaching programming and explores the C# language and its new options. Use it to understand the Dietels' approach to object-oriented programming, then build next-generation windows and web applications.

Solid, but chunky, C# and .NET tome

If you are into the big tome-style language books you will like this one. It's only 1,300 pages, but it feels like 2,000. The book starts with a language introduction. That's pretty solid. The object oriented material is presented well. That gets you to about 1/3 of the way through the book. After that it's a lightning tour through various parts of the .NET framework, including both desktop and web application development. All of these books suffer from the same problem, too much content. So the content is thinned out a little bit in comparison to a full book on the same subject. For example, a book just on ASP.NET could take a 1,000 pages alone. In this book it's around 100 pages. If you have the cash, buy both a C# language book, and another book dedicated to the .NET application platform you are building on. BTW, my three year old daughter picked up the book and said, "Too heavy." I agree.