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1.0 out of 5 stars
All over the place and not a beginner book, May 5 2004
I'm not from a publishing company or anybody affiliated with other books, thus right of the bat I am not going to recommend any other C# book, since I ordered one, but am waiting to review it.First of all my background is COBOL for 15 years and have dabbled with VB 6.0, so I wanted to dive into the world of OO programming and threw my hat into C# instead of JAVA and was looking for a TRUE Beginning book that wasn't too trivial but wasn't an intermediate book as well. As far as this book, there are some people who know the language, but cannot teach others the basics and that is where this author falls into. It goes all over the place instead of starting with the very basics and building an application where at the end of the book you can actually use the application and learn from it. I picked up this book off a suggestion that Wrox books are very good, well this one is a dud. The author doesn't even get into Windows Programming until half way through the book, which I had thought C# was primarly used for (albeit ASP.NET as well). This book was written for somebody oriented with other OO languages (JAVA, C++) and was switching over. I wanted a book written for a technical person who has some programming background, but not so easy and basic as the "For Dummies" or "Teach Yourself in 21 days". The title fools you into believing it is for a Beginner, but buyer beware !!..The best way to really pick a book is to go to a Borders or Barnes and Noble and sit down for an hour or so and read it to see the authors writing style to see if it fits your learning style. I am getting Murachs C# book, just because I had their Mainframe books which were good, so once I read the Murach book, I'll also write an honest review for those interested or you can go to your local bookstore and review it to form your own opinion.
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