On 2010-03-14 C. Jacques, Portland, OR USA wrote: This book is complete and thick. It is chock full of useful information and will become valuable to me in the future.
At no fault of the author, it was the wrong book for me to purchase at this stage of my C# development. But it is hard to know how to evaluate terms like ´Pro´ - kind of like picking the desired level of spice in a new restaurant.
So I purchased Deitel and Deitel C#2008 for Programmers (3rd Ed). A much better starting point for beginners and intermediate. That said, I now use this book as a reference.
However, I have read enough text books to see that it is a valuable and well written book.In 8 Parts, 33 Chapters and 2 Appendixes - it is thorough and complete.
I picked it even though I thought it might be as stretch because of the completeness.
I was less interested in some of the .NET history in Chapter 1.
I was pleasantly surprised and benefited from the review of using no charge IDE´s (Visual Studio is not cheap) and even compiling/developing outside of an IDE. It lead me to install the SharpDevelop IDE. So this book was valuable and will remain so. But beginners should consider an alternative. ´Pro´ means something here - but it will make me stretch.. And summed up by saying Pro is in the title for a reason. Currently Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform, Fourth Edition (Windows.Net) has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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