Is This C# Book Good for Beginners?

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I want to learn C# and .NET since I'm interested in beginning to program with Microsoft XNA and I have been looking at this book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pro-2010-NET-Platform-Edition/dp/1430225491/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1394976378&sr=8-2&keywords=pro+c%23

I'm a complete beginner at C#, but I know OOP since I have read this book, which is a 600-page book about Ruby and is about OOP:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beginning-Ruby-Novice-Professional-Experts/dp/1430223634/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394976433&sr=8-1&keywords=beginning+ruby

The C# book I linked, is it good for a beginner like me? Does it introduce C# from the basics and up, or is it for experienced C# programmers?

Thanks for reading :)

Posted 16-Mar-14 3:30am

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Mehdi Gholam 16-Mar-14 10:07am

If you can read and learn then it is good.

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Krunal Rohit · Answer 1 · 2014-03-16T05:49:00

It's an awesome book. The core C# and Threading are explained very well. (I learned Multihreading from this book).
Yous should read this. :)

These two are also quite good :
O'Reilly - C# 4.0 in a Nutshell and
Wrox - Professional C#

Well I don't know the exact name of these books, but give it try. :)

-KR

OriginalGriff · Answer 2 · 2014-03-16T04:09:00

Solution 1

It's not bad at all - I used the earlier version for 2005 / .NET 2.0 and it was easy to follow. I wouldn't recommend it for a complete beginner to computing, but if you have other programming experience you could do a lot, lot worse!

Posted 16-Mar-14 4:09am

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BillWoodruff · Answer 3 · 2014-03-16T07:04:00

Andrew Troelsen is a very accomplished and skilled technical writer and programmer. I'd highly recommend his books, but, I hope you are aware they are written at an advanced level. Jon Skeet is the other "guru's guru" I would recommend for books on C# at an intermediate to advanced level.

Are you aware that Troelsen has a newer edition of his book out: [^] ?

For newcomers to C# I'd recommend books by Jesse Liberty, Chris Sells, and Matthew MacDonald: although none of these authors has had a new edition out for a few years, I think they are excellent.

My strong recommendation for you ... based on "intuition" ... would be Liberty's "Learning C# 3.0" published by O'Reilly, 2008.

Are you aware of the free e-book from veteran Microsoft educator and writer Charles Petzold, ".NET Book Zero" ? Try it: [^].

adriancs · Answer 4 · 2014-03-16T16:54:00

Solution 4

You may get lots of free C# books at here:
http://it-ebooks.info/[^]

Posted 16-Mar-14 16:54pm

adriancs

Kan07 · Answer 5 · 2014-03-16T18:42:00

Solution 5

It depends on your talent ,these books are Advanced , Not at all simple for bBegineers..

Posted 16-Mar-14 18:42pm

Kan07

Ajith K Gatty · Answer 6 · 2014-03-16T19:45:00

Solution 6

Use this link and search for the books(beginners-Advanced). You will find all books which will help you to improve your knowledge.

http://it-ebooks.info/[^]

Best of luck.

Posted 16-Mar-14 19:45pm

Ajith K Gatty

sankarsan parida · Answer 7 · 2014-03-16T20:17:00

Solution 7

See the below links
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/ebooks/[^]
Microsoft-Visual-2012-Step-By [^]
https://www.udemy.com/c-tutorial-for-beginners[^]

Posted 16-Mar-14 20:17pm

sankarsan parida