C# Books?

[Kona*]

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

 

[Kona*]

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#

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