C# Books

[QurazyQuisp]

Does anyone have any recommendations for good starting C# books? I'd like to learn it as it seems like many of the programming positions out there are looking for people who are able to program in it.

 

[imported_Dhaval00]

O'Reilly Programming C# by Jesse Liberty, Fourth Edition. Best book to learn C# 2.0. If you don't know C#, or are a beginner, don't jump directly to C# 3.0 - you'll get confused if you don't know the fundamentals (things like delegates, events, publisher/subscriber pattern, anonymous methods, etc.).

Good luck.

 

[stash]

The Fifth Edition of that book just hit the shelves last week. It's updated to include VS2008, LINQ, .NET 3.5, etc.

He still covers all the fundementals in the first part of the book, and doesn't really get into C# 3.0 until the later parts of the book.

 

[GarfieldtheCat]

Anyone have an opinion on Essential C# (Michaelis) or Head First C# (Stellman and Greene) for intro books?

I've heard that Accelerated C# (Nash) and Pro C# and the .NET 3.5 Platform (Troelsen) are very good mid to advanced books.

 

[postmortemIA]

"being able to program in it" by reading few books is not what they are looking for, they all want well-rounder programmer with C# skills

 

[Markbnj]

I've bought a couple of decent ones, but they always end up sitting on my shelf while I Google up answers in a tenth the time it would take to look it up in one of the tomes. I keep telling myself books are still important, but I am starting to not believe it.

 

[postmortemIA]

MSDN documentation should have all answers you need.

 

[Thyme]

Originally posted by: GarfieldtheCat
Anyone have an opinion on Essential C# (Michaelis) or Head First C# (Stellman and Greene) for intro books?

I've heard that Accelerated C# (Nash) and Pro C# and the .NET 3.5 Platform (Troelsen) are very good mid to advanced books.

Glanced through Head First. Head First books are great and this one won't disappoint. Doesn't look like it's that great for experienced programmers, though.

 

[nordloewelabs]

if you are a noob and have no experience with Object Oritented Programming, i suggest:

Beginning C# Objects: From Concepts to Code (http://apress.com/book/view/159059360X).
this book is very theoretical, but it does an excellent job at teaching the fundamentals of programming with Objects. the authors go to great lengths to explain the "why's" of code syntax and approach. and the explanations are very well written, with lots of analogies.

i suggest O'Reilly's Programming C# (mentioned a few posts up), if you're:

a) not a noob
b) not into lots of theory or
c) wanna get the hands dirty quick



Edit: another suggestion for noobs:

Illustrated C# (http://www.apress.com/book/view/1590597230). it reminds me a little of "Head First" (also mentioned before), but this one isnt illustrated as much.