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Title: Beginning C# (Beta 2 Edition) by Karli Watson, Eric White, Jacob Hammer Pedersen, Ollie Cornes, Morgan Skinner, David Espinosa, Zach Greenvoss, Matthew Reynolds, Marco Bellinaso, John Reid ISBN: 1-86100-498-2 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: 15 September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99

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Average Customer Rating: 3.91 (11 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book
Comment: I would rate this book as being among the top 3 books out there on C# right now (the other two being C# and the .NET Platform by Andrew Troelsen and Programming C# from Jesse Liberty). The language is clear and each topic is succintly covered without sacrificing content. However this is not the book for advanced users given that the book does spend a good deal of time discussing programming fundamentals.

In order to get the most out of this book be sure to work on the case studies found at the end. These do a great job of tying everything together.

Rating: 5
Summary: My favorite C# book...
Comment: I wanted to learn C# (and learn more about .Net), and I'm coming from a mostly VB and ASP background. I was happy with Wrox's "C# Programming with the Public Beta" book (co-written by Watson), but wanted something that was more complete. At close to 1000 pages, this book certainly FEELS complete. It is also smartly outlined with excellent examples and exercises at the end of each chapter (but where are the answers??). Best of all once you step through the chapters on Windows and the web, there are TWO complete Case Studies (something I love about the Wrox books), and an article about building an Online Shopping Cart Using C#.
This book is similar in quality to Ivor Horton's "Beginning Java 2" books. (Only with better examples, in my opinion).

Rating: 4
Summary: BORING
Comment: This is a great book - it explains the concepts quite well, for a person like me, with a PHP background. However, it's incredibly boring. The first 250 pages of the book is dedicated to many small hello-world-style examples of code, which really doesn't explain why or where one should really use enumerations, structs and stuff - I would have preffered to be walked through larger, real-life applications instead. Don't get me wrong - this book is great for looking up stuff, but as a beginner, it's better to complement it with a more hands-on approach.

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