Looking for a tutorial, book,...

[Shawn]

I have been fooling around with C# for about a half year doing simple little
programs. i would like to delve into more complex UI designs such as docking
windows, the outlook task bar. Does anyone know any good books or tutorials
that would go over that? or where i can get information? i'm trying to break
into the C# field.

[Zach]

"Shawn" <Sh***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I have been fooling around with C# for about a half year doing simple little programs. i would like to delve into more complex UI designs such as docking windows, the outlook task bar. Does anyone know any good books or tutorials that would go over that? or where i can get information? i'm trying to break into the C# field.

Use the "find" option of your email program and look in the same list as in
which your posting has now appeared for posings containing the woord "book"
and you will find quite a discussion. As far as my taste is concerned, don't
buy Deitel and Deitel, they will bore you to death, O'Reilly is short an
crisp, Mayo covers a lot of issues rather more extensively. Personally I
would say, learn about the essentials and get issue-specific literature on
the areas of your knowledge you wish to extend and keep away from the
million page books, because the only way to do everything is to do
everything half.

[Steven Nagy]

Dietel and Dietal ain't so bad. We use them in our university teaching.

Yes, the majority of Dietel books are slow tutorial based learning, and
yes you should avoid those books.
But they also do more reference type books too. I have their "VB.NET
How to Program" which has tons of code examples.

I also don't mind the MS MCAD exam books as well. Otherwise do what I
do: go to a technical book shop and sit on the floor looking through
all their books. Amazon is also good for giving you appendices and
table of contents, even sample chapters.

[Zach]

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Dietel and Dietal ain't so bad. We use them in our university teaching.

Yes, the majority of Dietel books are slow tutorial based learning, and
yes you should avoid those books.
But they also do more reference type books too. I have their "VB.NET
How to Program" which has tons of code examples.

I also don't mind the MS MCAD exam books as well. Otherwise do what I
do: go to a technical book shop and sit on the floor looking through
all their books. Amazon is also good for giving you appendices and
table of contents, even sample chapters.

Going to a bookshop and finding out the "feel" of a book, and looking at the
list of contents at Amazon.com is excellent advice.

[Shawn]

"Steven Nagy" wrote:

Dietel and Dietal ain't so bad.
this is true. but if you are looking for more advanced topics they just
don't cut it. as an example i have their "VB.net for experianced programmers"
and " C#: A Programmer's Introduction " most of the examples were exactly
the same just dealing with the different syntax. very basic examples.
We use them in our university teaching.
Yes, the majority of Dietel books are slow tutorial based learning, and
yes you should avoid those books.
But they also do more reference type books too. I have their "VB.NET
How to Program" which has tons of code examples.

I also don't mind the MS MCAD exam books as well. Otherwise do what I
do: go to a technical book shop and sit on the floor looking through
all their books. Amazon is also good for giving you appendices and
table of contents, even sample chapters.

[Zach]

"Shawn" <Sh***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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"Steven Nagy" wrote:

Dietel and Dietal ain't so bad.
this is true. but if you are looking for more advanced topics they just
don't cut it. as an example i have their "VB.net for experianced

programmers" and " C#: A Programmer's Introduction " most of the examples were exactly
the same just dealing with the different syntax. very basic examples.

Some C books were books for C rewritten for C++ rewritten for C#.

[Chris]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 08:57:05 -0800, "Shawn"
<Sh***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

Dietel and Dietal ain't so bad.

this is true. but if you are looking for more advanced topics they just
don't cut it. as an example i have their "VB.net for experianced programmers"
and " C#: A Programmer's Introduction " most of the examples were exactly
the same just dealing with the different syntax. very basic examples.

My advice would be that once you've grasped the very basic examples
from Deitel, Mayo and the "Wrox writers", is to delve a little bit
deeper by fully understanding classes, inheritance and polymorphism -
the very heart of C# - and get a book like "Beginning C# Objects: From
Concepts to Code".

If you want to know more about the GUI programming, check Wrox. You
can download sample chapters from their site, otherwise try amazon.com

Happy coding,

Chris