C# Books?

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Hi :)

I don't have any programming experience at all and I am looking to learn C# as this is what the developers at work write in. I am looking for a couple of C# books to help me get on my way - I learn best by doing practical exercises rather than mindless reading and hoping to take it in. Can you lot please recommend me some books that will teach me the basics of programming and have a lot of exercises to complete?

Cheers,

Craig
 
One book that I can recommend is "Microsoft C# Programming for the absolute beginner".

It's a good starting point, teachs you by writing games. The version of the book I read was pretty old, and I believe it's been re-released since then.

It will give you some of the basics thought.

I'm a trainee web developer, and the book doesn't cover anything to do with web development, strictly console apps and windows forms (atleast the version I read), but a lot of the information is still valid.

PS - If your looking to get into Web Development, learn ASP.NET with C# :)
 
Ciphon said:
One book that I can recommend is "Microsoft C# Programming for the absolute beginner".

It's a good starting point, teachs you by writing games. The version of the book I read was pretty old, and I believe it's been re-released since then.

It will give you some of the basics thought.

I'm a trainee web developer, and the book doesn't cover anything to do with web development, strictly console apps and windows forms (atleast the version I read), but a lot of the information is still valid.

PS - If your looking to get into Web Development, learn ASP.NET with C# :)
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Thanks for that, I'll take a look tonight :)

I'm not limiting myself to winforms by the way - our developers are also coding web apps at the moment so a bit of ASP.NET wouldn't go a miss - I don't want to jump in at the deep end though :p
 
I'm currently reading Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform, 4th Edition (2007) and I'm getting on with it fine but I do have Java programming experience. It's a good book but you really need to know the basics of prgramming before it would make sense.
 
RobH said:
I'm currently reading Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform, 4th Edition (2007) and I'm getting on with it fine but I do have Java programming experience. It's a good book but you really need to know the basics of prgramming before it would make sense.
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Does this cover ASP.net also?
 
RobH said:
It has 3 chapters on it, I imagine it covers it in enough detail to get going but not as extensively as dedicated a ASP.NET with C# book would.
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I've been looking at a few web dev jobs recently, and it seems more and more are asking for ASP.net, which is a pain for me as I mainly use PHP, so I think I'm going to have to do a little more learning. I'll give that book a whirl, cheers. :)
 
3dbuzz do C# video training dvds and you learn by making games with xna, its aimed at the complete beginner to progamming. If you click Ms-Xna on the left bar you can see some vids from project one.

http://www.3dbuzz.com

Learning C# 3.0 by Jesse Liberty is a good beginner book.
 
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