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C# Unleashed
by Joe Mayo
List Price: $49.95
Our Price: $34.97
ISBN: 067232122X
Publisher: SAMS (15 January, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 85,951
Average Customer Rating: 4.04 out of 5
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Rating: 4 out of 5
The book I would buy for beginners
Being well schooled in C++ and Java, my first reaction to C# was one of skepticism. To me, it was a language that was redundant and unneeded. However, as I delved deeper into the features, my feelings changed a great deal. Now, I am devoting my personal training time to delving as deeply as possible into C# and if I go back to managing development, will use it over C++. This is also the book that I would purchase for anyone who is a beginner in the language.
Like all good authors of programming books, Mayo spends little time on programming basics such as control constructs and operators. Very few potential readers have not used them, so the briefest of mentions is adequate. In my surveys of programmers who read books about new languages, nearly all say they skim or skip such sections. I found the presentation sequence to be logical, as one topic follows another in a sensible order. The demonstrative examples are small and effective, although an occasional larger one that integrates several topics would have helped. The breadth of coverage is broader than what is done in most beginning books. There are sections on multi-threading, reflection, performance modeling, creating resource files and optimizing the garbage collector among others. While short, these sections demonstrate some of the power built into the language.
If I was required to choose a book for a programming class in C#, this would be the one. The only drawback would be the lack of exercises, but beyond that, I can find little fault with it.
Rating: 5 out of 5
C# Unleashed
This is one of the first books that I read on C#. I continually come back to this book when I want to get some information quickly. The explanations are very clear and the examples illustrate the concepts. Considering the huge size of Visual Studio.Net, no book can cover all topics in complete detail. That would require a set of volumes of encyclopedic dimensions.
C# unleashed gives a Programmer with some background in a modern
object oriented language a pretty good idea of the C# languageand how it can be used. Another feature I like is the appendix
which lists the command line compile options. These are also
illustrated in the examples throughout the book.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Good for beginners, experienced can look elsewhere
I got this book with an intention of digging a little deep into C#, alas I was disappointed. The book is good for people who are new to the .NET environment and C# language. However if you are experienced in C# and looking for a more comprehensive book, don't think of spending time and money for this book.
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