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C#: The Complete Reference (Osborne Complete Reference Series)
by Herbert Schildt, Herb Schildt
List Price: $49.99
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ISBN: 0072134852
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media (08 March, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 266,947
Average Customer Rating: 4 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
A detailed description of C#
This is an excellent -- repeat excellent -- book on C#. That's not surprising since its written by legendary author Herbert Schildt. (Just about anyone who has been arround programming for the past 20 years probably has two or more Schildt books!) It provides an incredibly detailed description of the C# language and the .NET Framework libraries. Schildt carefully describes each feature, keyword, and attribute of C#, and shows how to apply them. He even shows how C# compares to and differs from Java and C++. This is clearly a book from an author who knows his stuff.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Average at best
Unfortunately, Herb seems to have written this book with another language in mind, perhaps Java, C? I say this because his explanations of topics seem so generic that you'd forget your even reading about .net. That's not good. I've read several other C# books that do a much better job of pulling me into the .net world. Also, Schildt apparently made a blatant decision to not code accoring to the recommended MS standards of camel and pascal case. This is very annoying. Other books even take the time to tell you exactly what these standards are. Herb does not. I get the feeling he just recycled some material from past books and rushed this out the door. If he even wrote any of this book at all, who knows. Look elsewhere folks.
Rating: 3 out of 5
"Complete" is misleading
The title "Complete" Reference is misleading, because the book is definitely not complete. Schild does his usual good job of explaining C# syntax and construction; in this respect, this book is one of the better ones. However, his almost parenthetical discussion of actually building applications - which is what most C#.net programmers want to do - is woefully inadequate. There are a number of C# idioms which are very useful to know and understand in the building of C# applications, and Schild doesn't even attempt to cover them. If you want a book to learn C# syntax, this is it. If you want a book which will teach you how to build applications, definitely look elsewhere!
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