Getting back into C#

Furton · 2 Aug 2006 at 21:29

After graduating from Uni doing a computer science course I went into a testing job to tie me over for a while, however a while has turned out to be over a year and I've completley forgot how to program (3 years well spent

). I was never really that good at it but I'm determined to get back into and could do with picking up the basics again before getting back into the more complex stuff.

Anyone got recommondations for a book that goes through the principles of OOP as well as teaching C#?

Inquisitor · 2 Aug 2006 at 21:33

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...pd_ka_1/202-5295364-9989433?ie=UTF8&s=gateway

Furton · 3 Aug 2006 at 19:00

That's got some terrible reviews, looking at this book, anyone else got it?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0672325462/ref=pd_sbs_w_h__4/202-4031601-5293420?ie=UTF8

Lagz · 3 Aug 2006 at 19:44

Furton said:
anyone else got it?

Yes and its terrible reviews are well deserved. Dont get it!

Furton · 3 Aug 2006 at 20:22

Anyone got the Sams Teach yourself in 21 days book? Reviews look good and content wise seems to be what I'm after.

hooneeawr · 4 Aug 2006 at 11:16

I have that book actually, the 21 days one, and its not bad. It's c# 2003 though, not the 2005 version I use here at work, so there are some differences.

I also have MSPress C# step by step which is quite good as an intro to c# and VS2005, but doesn't go in to a lot of detail.

Gibbs · 4 Aug 2006 at 11:33

If you want to use a book then useBeginning Visual C# 2005 by Wrox (www.wrox.com)

Great book to have. If you want some video training then go here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualcsharp/learning/default.aspx

Free videos by the team at www.learnvisualstudio.net and supplied by MS for free.

Good Luck, C# is by no means easy but very powerful OOP language

Una · 4 Aug 2006 at 11:42

If you have programmed before you may as well just pick up a reference book.

Getting a beginners book that shows you things like conditionals/flow control is going to be pointless. C# is a very easy language and you could just learn it from web tutorials and practice.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...pd_ka_4/026-4573471-5830859?ie=UTF8&s=gateway
Is pretty good.

The three pillars of OO design are Encapsulation, Inheritance and Polymorphism. Books like sams teach your self c# in 21 hours will not go into great detail on good design.

I can recommend this for that,
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...pd_ka_1/026-4573471-5830859?ie=UTF8&s=gateway

Gibbs · 4 Aug 2006 at 11:43

C# is by no means easy, its easier than it has been before but its still not a walk in the park like VB.NET is.

Una · 4 Aug 2006 at 11:48

Well I have programmed in fortran, C/C++, haskell, java and 68000 asm. C# and Java are a walk in the park compared to the others to learn.

Gibbs · 4 Aug 2006 at 11:56

yea if your working on a hiher level of lanuage then off course C# is easier. Hes just getting back into things after 3 years, if i dont code for 3weeks i start to forget stuff. But i know the reason for that lol.

JonD · 4 Aug 2006 at 11:57

Furton said:
After graduating from Uni doing a computer science course I went into a testing job to tie me over for a while, however a while has turned out to be over a year and I've completley forgot how to program (3 years well spent ). I was never really that good at it but I'm determined to get back into and could do with picking up the basics again before getting back into the more complex stuff.

Anyone got recommondations for a book that goes through the principles of OOP as well as teaching C#?

Main Manchester Uni? I just graduated from their too, John Lathom, Jim Gaaaaarside etc?

or where u part of umist which merged with us? grrr

Furton · 4 Aug 2006 at 18:12

I was part of UMIST that merged with you!

Thanks for the recommondations, I already have a Visual C# book that covers a lot of stuff in detail but could do with getting to know the basics again, mostly on OO theory.

Think I'll get the Sams book and the pocket reference.

JonD · 4 Aug 2006 at 18:26

Bah u merged with us! Grrr

Grats on graduating tho

robmiller · 4 Aug 2006 at 19:17

Furton said:
That's got some terrible reviews

It's been reviewed by plonkers then---Programming C# is by far the best C# book around.

Furton · 4 Aug 2006 at 19:33

robmiller said:
It's been reviewed by plonkers then---Programming C# is by far the best C# book around.

Bah, dam you for putting doubts in my mind!

Reezer · 5 Aug 2006 at 07:50

I like this book http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...=sr_1_1/026-4478075-5199638?ie=UTF8&s=gateway it's a bit more advanced than the "beginning...", "... in X days..." books and it's pretty well written. Good reviews too

arty · 5 Aug 2006 at 11:22

Gibbs said:
C# is by no means easy, its easier than it has been before but its still not a walk in the park like VB.NET is.

I don't think that's true, seeing as VB was never really meant to be an OO language whereas C# was designed for .net, more or less. I've seen some VB.net and it still looks like a horrible mess

arty

Inquisitor · 5 Aug 2006 at 11:37

Gibbs said:
C# is by no means easy, its easier than it has been before but its still not a walk in the park like VB.NET is.

Erm, have you actually tried them both? :confused:

They have almost identical functionality, the only real differences being syntactical. Unless you find it hard to program if you're not writing something that looks like a block of prose then I'm not sure how VB.NET is that much easier than C#.