C# Essentials (Prentice Hall Ptr Microsoft Technologies Series)

By William H. Murray and Chris H. Pappas

The fastest way to get up to speed with the next need-to-know programming language *Get up-to-speed on C SHARP quickly and skillfully*Leverage your existing C or C++ skills*Covers key language... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 013093285X
• ISBN13: 9780130932853
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

C# Essentials is for any adapting C /C++ programmer

This is exactly what I was looking for, a book that examines the nuts and bolts of the C# while taking advatage of my C foundation. The book also makes language comparisons to Visual Basic, C/C++, Java, JScript, and Visual Foxpro. I thoroughly enjoyed the historical chapter 1, describing the evolution of programming. General programming concepts like proper use of control flow selection, proper initialization, and passing by reference versus passing by value are covered sufficiently and efficiently. C# language features are made clear with example code. The debugging environment in .NET was also covered, explaining the whole set of menu options for debugging.You are not going to get any programs of that put together all the concepts, but your going to build the foundation to taking that step on your own. The authors are remarkably clear and to the point, usually giving an example where necessary. I'll be interested to try their C# for Windows Programming book next. A final comment: this is not a reference book, it more of an "adapting to C#" type of book, which serves its purpose to the tee.

Kewl Book

My boy friend at UCLA let me borrow this book, but I finally bought my own copy. This book covers all of the features of C# which is the new Microsoft language.If you know any C++, you are going to have no trouble with C# espically with this book. They have included a lot of short example programs that help you understand C# programming features.They really helped me understand arrays in C# because they are totally different than for C++. Also, get ready for this, pointers are not used in C#, so you have got to do things another way. If you are like me, I didn't get along to well with pointers anyway.Get the book, dude.