C# for beginners

[Dodecahedron]

I am an absolute beginner in terms of C# and would like to know

- Good C# books for beginners
- Online Resources for C# beginners

Any help would be much appreciated

Thanks

Qouth

 

[markknowsley]

As someone who was an absolute beginner a few weeks ago, and is now able to create C# web forms and integrate them some back - end office systems I would recommend the following book:

Programming C# by Jesse Liberty (ISBN 0-596-00309-9) which doesn't deal with ASP.NET web forms (all the examples use a C# application) but does teach you everything you need to know about the language

and the following web reference:
this one! post your questions into this forum - all the responses I have received have been helpful and not of the "stupid newbie" variety

 

[MasterRacker]

Check out this thread: thread732-1182849

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[jwarmuth]

C# Unleashed has been very good to me.

Jeff W.
MCSE, CNE

 

[IT4EVR]

I really like Murach's C#. It's one of the few .NET books out there that did a good job of explaining OOP concepts in common sense language. Abstract classes really seem abstract until you start using them. What I like is that every code example in the book applies to and contributes towards an overall project being constructed.

The books I tend to learn from are the ones where you can apply the concepts or code examples to one of your own projects. I like the books that create a unified project throughout the chapters instead of building a lot of isolated examples that seem very hard to piece together as a whole.

I could never get through the Jesse Liberty books. Many people rave about his books, and he is the most popular .NET author out there, but I find his examples to be a bit esoteric.



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