where to start?

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Hello,
easy question:
- what are the best books to start learning C#?

Thanks!
Rocco

[Doug Semler]

On Sep 14, 9:34 am, rocco <[e-mail]:

Hello,
easy question:
- what are the best books to start learning C#?

These questions are always funny to me, it's like asking where to find
the best burger in town...Ask 9 people and you'll get 10 different
answers. And the answer to your question is actually "it depends."
The reason I say that is that it depends on what your current skillset
is. Do you already know a programming language or not? Do you have
any experience with OOP concepts, etc.

Seriously, the best way is probably to "figure it out" for yourself.
Run down to the local bookstore/library and browse through the
selection of books available. Open up a couple books and start
reading them and see if you are grasping the concepts. If you are
completely oblivious to the concepts in the book, it's probably too
advanced for you. On the other hand, you could pick up something like
"C# for dummies" it might be useless TO YOU because the book covers
concepts about which you are already aware...

JMO of course.

P.S. I used MSDN myself, but that's because I had been working with C+
+ and OOP for 10 years before C# came out and the transition was
pretty seamless.

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my kind of question. you ask the people who know and hope they know and hope
they have an answer and hope it's not too off base.
as to burgers? (noted by Doug) if you want one with Onions and Rings. I'd
get a reference Dino Esposito's MS Press asp.net 2005 works and it's more of
a primer. But that's just the onions pickles, tomatos. For the burger itself,
just start coding.
and ask ask ask! people here are willing to share what they know, i've had
good experience!
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Share The Knowledge. I need all the help I can get and so do you!
"rocco" wrote:

Hello,
easy question:
- what are the best books to start learning C#?

Thanks!
Rocco

[DaveP]

If you new to Programming
get a Beginners book

if you experience Programmer new to c#
get a cheap beginners book gets u basic language understanding
and A Pro/Advanced book
Ive use alot of books over the years different authors, Publishers,
languages (ie programming lang)

Lately
I like APress books

good Luck
DaveP
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Hello,
easy question:
- what are the best books to start learning C#?

Thanks!
Rocco

[Ian Semmel]

A good place to start is

Help
Contents
Development Tools and Languages
Visual Studio
Visual C#

There are also numerous tutorials.

A lot of the books just rip stuff out of there anyway.

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From: rocco [mailto:ro***@discussions.microsoft.com]
Posted At: Friday, 14 September 2007 11:34 PM
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Conversation: where to start?
Subject: where to start?

Hello,
easy question:
- what are the best books to start learning C#?

Thanks!
Rocco

[fred.simons]

I agree with what most people say. Books are to the user. I actually got my
feet wet, and my co-workers with the basic C# from Microsoft. I know others
live and sleep by Roxx. Just get one that you like the way it is laid out
and start learning.