A Programmer's Introduction to C#

Book Description

This comprehensive reference to the C# language is designed to help you get up to speed on C#. Author Eric Gunnerson, a developer on Microsoft's C# design team, has logged many hours writing and testing C# code. Thus, he is uniquely poised to effectively coach you on using the language. And you will come to understand how C# fits into Microsoft's .NET Framework.

Gunnerson provides the ideal foundation for you to springboard into a C# knowledge base. Core topics include C# basic statements and flow of execution, classes, interfaces, expressions, arrays, enums, interoperability, exception handling, and delegates and events. The final section of the book will enlighten you on the history of C# and compare it to other widely-used programming languages. New features to this second edition include GUI application development using Windows Forms, and advanced topics like threading and execution-time code generation./p>

Reviews From AMAZON.COM

Hit or miss

This book was recommended to me by a colleague as an introduction to C#, but I have to say I'm a bit disappointed.

I'm a fairly experienced C++ and Java programmer, and for someone at my level, it spends too much time on basic programming concepts (object-oriented programming, threading, etc) rather than teaching me about C# at the level I need. (At the same time, the treatment of these subjects is probably too cursory for someone who did not already understand them.)

There are also numerous typos and formatting errors; this might not ordinarily matter so much, but it often makes the code samples more difficult to read.

For an experienced programmer I might recommend "Inside C#" by Tom Archer & Andrew Whitechapel instead.

Excellent - the best C# book I've found

Easily the best C# book on the market. If you want to learn the C# language (as opposed to an introduction to OOP or .NET), then this is the book to get - it's clear, to the point and easy to follow. I've purchased and returned about half a dozen C# books (just search Amazon for C# and you'll see which ones) before discovering this book. Gunnerson writes in a clear and concise style that's simply refreshing after going through so many other poorly written books.