Brendan M. Funnell said
James Foxall's guide for new C# programmers really hit the spot, at least for me. I have experience with many languages over the years, but had no call to look at C# until recently (my experience was mainly in midrange and mainframe systems, but did some Java many moons ago) and needed to get up to working pace FAST.
Foxall's book provided clarity of writing with useful code examples. I would recommend using this with other, more comprehensive texts, such as C# in a Nutshell or one of Jesse Liberty's C# guides, but Foxall's is the doco that got me up and running in a few days.
I am unsure how good it would be for someone without any programming experience at all, but that wasn't my concern when purchasing the book. It served my purpose well.
Pule Nong said
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This is a beginner's book and is well written, James Foxall starts us with a real life program that makes sense, and not the usual "Hello, World" exercise. In the first hour he teaches how to build a Picture Viewer Program and not only stops there with the Picture Viewer Program, he continues to teach new skills that builds on that program.This is a great book and I recommend it to anyone new to the C# language.
Clyde V. Stoker said
I found this book to be very well written and informative. He starts at a level almost anyone can understand and expands from there, covering event driven programming, good examples. I specially liked the section on publishing your applications.
W Boudville said
Foxall gives us a quick coverage of C#, well suited to a neophyte. The book seems equally divided between the explanations of graphics and non-graphics. The latter means traditional aspects of any programming language, as in the use of if-else, while and for loops. Here, you might as well be studying C in 1980. These are fundamental constructs that any language needs.
What is perhaps more distinctive of C# are the graphic components, widgets. Foxall shows how to quickly write short programs that can make a few widgets and lay them out in a window for the user to interact with. En route, he teaches about event driven programming, where if you use graphics, the user can interact with the program in many ways. Hence the structuring of code to handle this is quite different from programs lacking a GUI. The use of widgets also lends itself well to you understanding object oriented coding.
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