Learn to Program with C#

I have yet to see a beginner's book on C# that even comes close to this one. It is amazing how hundreds of C# books out there misses a critical point that the reader may not understand the material very well unless it is explained in easy detail. This book does not miss its easy details.I have intermediate skillset in C# and I still found this book helpful because it provides a refreshing perspective on the fundamentals of... Read Full Review

.NET Framework has forced many of us to sit down and re-learn what we thought we already new. Concepts such as OOP to include Inheritance, Method Overloading, and etc. As a VB6 guru, there was not a big push to learn what we truly needed. However, this is not true within Microsoft's .NET technology. Therefore, if you truly want to start with a solid foundation learning OOP, I highly recommend purchasing this book. With... Read Full Review

I took a chance on this book because it said that it was a "true beginners book". I had zero computer programming skills or knowledge. I knew some basic PC tasks, like using word, the internet and manipulating some pics I got off my camera, but again zero programming. Everyone I talked to recommened books that were supposed to be for the beginner but everyone of them required at least some elementary background with basic... Read Full Review

I'm using this book to teach C# at the University level and I find it to be an excellent book to teach students the new C# language, expecially those with no prior programming experience. I've used John Smiley's other books on programming languages in other classes I've taught, and believe me, it makes the instructor's job easy.The book is full of examples, and has an ongoing case study which my students found very useful... Read Full Review

True to the title, "Learn to Program with C#" clearly introduces the basic principles of computer programming while teaching Microsoft's C# language. This book will be useful to both novice programmers and to programmers, like myself, with some experience in another language. In fact, my earlier experience is in Fortran, Basic and Visual Basic, which I initially learned in a pair of courses taught by the author, John Smiley,... Read Full Review