Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) by John Sharp Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft))
Book Review: Great start to C#
Summary: 4 Stars
I liked the tone of the writing and the layout: side boxes which serve to highlight, tips, or important notes. A lot of the examples provided by the author serve to illustrate concepts really well. I found the end of chapter "Quick Reference" sections useful, as a practical summary of the topics covered in that chapter.
Even though this is meant to be a step by step book, some parts are fairly complete and very reference like.
As I progressed through the book I felt that I would benefit from more exercises / tests, so I could go away and try writing the code to solve them. Obviously having sample solutions to these in the CD maybe helpful too.
Overall a great book to get started!
Book Review: Benchmark
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this book as a c++ programmer interested in learning c#. It is one of the few programming books I own, which is truely complete in the sense that you need to have read nothing else but this book to get on with the programming. This book is very clear, goes into enough depth to give you a good understanding, but not too deep as to bog you down, is interesting to learn from and is very, very well written. This sort of writing style should be a benchmark for all programming books rather than the usual ambiguity which is all too common in other texts. If you don't know anything about programming and want to learn c#, get this book. If you are already a programmer and want to learn c#, get this book.Book Review: A very good introduction to C#
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this book hoping it would do what it said on the cover and I was not disappointed.
This book is a very good introduction to C# that I feel I will be refering to time and time again.
There are plenty of exercises throughout the book and they really do (with just one or two exceptions) help to support your learning of C# and the topic under discussion.
John Sharp has a very enjoyable reading style that makes it a joy to learn a new language.
It's a good book to learn from whatever your programming background - with tips throughout the book to show differences between C# and C, C++ and Java.
As an aside, I've made a couple of attempts at getting into Windows technologies in the past with Programming Windows 95 with MFC and the like which were tediously dry. This author, writing about a modern language, makes Windows development look much more appealing and reduces the barrier to entry!
Book Review: This is the book for OO with .NET 2.0
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an excellent book and I highly recommend it, its is fairly concise and has is fantastic introduction into proper development into C# 2005. The book takes you through developing with Visual Studio 2005 using OO. If you want to become a proper develper with OO this is a fairly good book for it. The only down side is the the database examples are poor and are open to SQL injection attacks (not good).Book Review: A good starting point
Summary: 4 Stars
This book has been great at getting me started on c# however the last chapters are ultimatly pointless and i would recomend getting book on the specific subjects for example the chapters on ASP.NET. However this is by no means a bad thing it does give a good over view of what the language can do.
I would recomend this to any one with little or no programming experience I have read other .net books from ms press and this is by far the best i have read for c#.
The book takes you through a pretty standard getting started type chapters and excersizes, however the explanations of every program are strong and do encourage you to try the next excersize with out the constant questions like "I know this works but why?"
Well done John Sharp will look out for more books that you have written