C# a Programmer's Introduction

This covers many of the important aspects of C#. I like the Good Programming practice and Software Engineering tips very much.Only problem is the font and the bold highlighting is so much that it makes the book hard to read continuously. Page starts to blur after a while. My other book is a Sams teach yourself C# in 21 days. The text is muuuuuchhh more readable.

After reading "C# Primer Plus", I was looking for a programming book that uses the FCL and VS .NET in earnest, providing a good introduction to Win Forms, ASP.NET, and Web Services. I found that in this book. It's very clearly written, and explains the basic concepts well without much non-sense, unlike "Programming C#".My main concern is that it's coverage of core C# is somewhat skimpy. Important subjects such as data types, delegates, interfaces, and polymorphism are either not covered at all, or mentioned just in passing. So you are still going to need an in depth book on core C#. I recommend "C# Primer Plus", which I believe you should read before this one. Nothwithstanding some overlap between the two, they complement each other very nicely. This one will smooth the transition from core C# to usage of the bread & butter classes that are included in .NET.

In covering the subject, Deitel and company provide a good overview of not only C#, but object oriented programming concepts, and using solutions that take advanatge of XML, ADO .NET, and ASP .NET. An introduction is provided of the Visual Studio .NET development environment. The 800+ page book includes 152 "Live-Code" programs with C# program code, and over 353 programming tips.

As I am also one of the reviewers of this book, I perceptibly noticed how much care the Deitel people take for their book to provide a comprehensible book. Let us see what's special about the Deitel Series and this book: The Live-Code Approach - All the Deitel's Developer series books provide you the entire concept through Complete set of working programs and portray their inputs and outputs in actual screen shots of running programs. This book provides you 11,550 lines of codes in 152 complete Live-code programs and gives you a clear picture about the concepts.Another one highlighting point in Deitel series is Syntax Highlighting. This book uses five different style of syntax prominence.Another one issue, I like very much in the Deitel Book series is the Programming Tips they provide. Since the Programming techniques help the reader to build code that is manageable, reusable and optimized for performance. In this book they provide 353 Programming Tips! As I already mentioned, this book is intended for programmers with little programming experience. This book starts with C# and .NET fundamentals. In the early chapters it speaks about the Object-oriented programming in C# and covers all the topics from the scratch. Then it covers the Graphical user interface concepts, Multithreading, Files and streams and Exceptional Handling in depth manner with lot of programming examples. This book also endow with all the information about the ADO.NET, XML and ASP.NET along with the Web services. This book makes clear how to create mobile web applications using Microsoft Mobile Internet Toolkit. Along with a wide spread Appendix, it also gives explanation about Networking and Accessibility-issues. "Comprehensive, In-Depth, Clear, Example rich Book and provide all the practical insight for the Programmer's to dive deep into C#"

I have used Deitel books since graduate school and this latest addition to my library is a fine addition. The Deitels always strike a nice balance between being too wordy and being too sparse. I especially like the Software Engineering Observations, Good Programming Pratice, and Testing and Debugging Tips. These prove invaluable in focusing the beginning programmer on the things that will yield the most improvement in their coding style. I intend to use this book in the courses I teach for the forseeable future.