Product Description

C# Primer Plus teaches the C# programming language and relevant parts of the .NET platform from the ground up, walking you through the basics of object-oriented programming, important programming techniques and problem solving while providing a thorough coverage of C#'s essential elements - such as classes, objects, data types, loops, branching statements, arrays, and namespaces.

In early chapters guided tours take you sightseeing to the main attractions of C# and provide a fast learning-path that enables you to quickly write simple C# programs. Your initial programming skills are then gradually expanded, through the many examples, case studies, illustrations, review questions and programming exercises, to include powerful concepts - like inheritance, polymorphism, interfaces and exception handling, along with C#'s most innovative features - such as properties, indexers, delegates and events.

With C# Primer Plus's dual emphasis on C# as well as fundamental programming techniques, this friendly tutorial will soon make you a proficient C# programmer building Windows applications on the .NET platform.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1279864 in Books
• Published on: 2001-12-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 992 pages

From the Back Cover

C# Primer Plus teaches the C# programming language and relevant parts of the .NET platform from the ground up, walking you through the basics of object-oriented programming, important programming techniques and problem solving while providing a thorough coverage of C#'s essential elements - such as classes, objects, data types, loops, branching statements, arrays, and namespaces.

In early chapters guided tours take you sightseeing to the main attractions of C# and provide a fast learning-path that enables you to quickly write simple C# programs. Your initial programming skills are then gradually expanded, through the many examples, case studies, illustrations, review questions and programming exercises, to include powerful concepts - like inheritance, polymorphism, interfaces and exception handling, along with C#'s most innovative features - such as properties, indexers, delegates and events.

With C# Primer Plus's dual emphasis on C# as well as fundamental programming techniques, this friendly tutorial will soon make you a proficient C# programmer building Windows applications on the .NET platform.

About the Author

Klaus Michelsen has a Masters degree in Economics from Aarhus University in Denmark. His studies included artificial intelligence and courses in advanced computer science at Sydney University in Australia. Since his first programming assignment for a shoe shop when he was 18, he has, during his 15 years of programming experience, been exposed to many different technologies and programming languages, including Java, Visual J++, C++, MS Access, VB, Eiffel, and Pascal. Klaus has been working with C# and .NET since their introduction in the year 2000.

Customer Reviews

Good for beginners
This book explains from ground up the C# language and object-oriented concepts. With almost 900 pages the contexts are full of examples and lists of codes despite some of them are surreal (one instance is the author tries to describe how an alien from planet Blipos uses pseudocode to calulate an average for a list of numbers). However the tone is very friendly and between paragraphs the author provides tips and notes which are very useful as extra information. The author also uses diagrams to aide the text which I found really helpful. One downside of this book is errors mostly typos are littered everywhere. You could update them from the publisher Sams' website.

This book assumes you have .NET SDK but not Visual Studio .NET so there are no topics on VS.NET IDE or anything related to that. However the goal of this book is on the language itself, not the developing tool. If you are looking for how to use VS.NET I recommend "Microsoft Visual C# .NET Step by Step". If you have programming backgrounds then "C# and the .Net Platform" published by Apress maybe a better choice.