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“Based on my own experience, I can safely say that every .NET developer who reads this will have at least one ‘aha’ moment and will be a better developer for it.”
–From the Foreword by Don Box
The popular C# programming language combines the high productivity of rapid application development languages with the raw power of C and C++. Updated to cover the new features of C# 4.0, including dynamic binding, named and optional parameters, and covariant and contravariant generic types, this release takes the language to the next level by adding the ability to cleanly write programs that don’t rely on static type definitions. This allows dynamic programming languages such as Python, Ruby, and JavaScript to feel native to C#. The C# Programming Language, Fourth Edition, continues to be the authoritative and annotated technical reference for C# 4.0.
Written by Anders Hejlsberg, the language’s architect, and his colleagues, Mads Torgersen, Scott Wiltamuth, and Peter Golde, this volume has been completely updated for C# 4.0. The book provides the complete specification of the language, along with descriptions, reference materials, code samples, and annotations from twelve prominent C# gurus.
The many annotations bring a depth and breadth of understanding rarely found in any programming book. As the main text of the book introduces the concepts of the C# language, cogent annotations explain why they are important, how they are used, how they relate to other languages, and even how they evolved.
This book is the definitive, must-have reference for any developer who wants to understand C#. With annotations from: Brad Abrams, Joseph Albahari, Krzysztof Cwalina, Jesse Liberty, Eric Lippert, Christian Nagel, Vladimir Reshetnikov, Marek Safar, Chris Sells, Peter Sestoft, Jon Skeet, and Bill Wagner.
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“Based on my own experience, I can safely say that every .NET developer who reads this will have at least one ‘aha’ moment and will be a better developer for it.”
—From the Foreword by Don Box
The popular C# programming language combines the high productivity of rapid application development languages with the raw power of C and C++. Updated to cover the new features of C# 4.0, including dynamic binding, named and optional parameters, and covariant and contravariant generic types, this release takes the language to the next level by adding the ability to cleanly write programs that don’t rely on static type definitions. This allows dynamic programming languages such as Python, Ruby, and JavaScript to feel native to C#. The C# Programming Language, Fourth Edition, continues to be the authoritative and annotated technical reference for C# 4.0.
Written by Anders Hejlsberg, the language’s architect, and his colleagues, Mads Torgersen, Scott Wiltamuth, and Peter Golde, this volume has been completely updated and reorganized for C# 4.0. The book provides the complete specification of the language, along with descriptions, reference materials, code samples, and annotations from nine prominent C# gurus.
The many annotations bring a depth and breadth of understanding rarely found in any programming book. As the main text of the book introduces the concepts of the C# language, cogent annotations explain why they are important, how they are used, how they relate to other languages, and even how they evolved.
This book is the definitive, must-have reference for any developer who wants to understand C#.
With annotations from:
Brad Abrams
Joseph Albahari
Krzysztof Cwalina
Jesse Liberty
Eric Lippert
Christian Nagel
Vladimir Reshetnikov
Marek Safar
Chris Sells
Peter Sestoft
Jon Skeet
Bill Wagner
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After buying the LINQ book (which is excellent) in the same series I had high hopes for this book.
Unfortunately, this book is written for people who want to know the underlying structure of C#, rather than how to code in C#.
The written style is very terse and on occasions I had to re-read paragraphs over and over and still didn't have a clue what they meant - it feels like it is written in machine code!
The examples are sparse and not very informative.
This book is not for the faint hearted and if you want a book that teaches you the C# language that's easy to read and with good examples I urge you to look elsewhere.
For me, this book is more confusing than helpful.
I found two obvious errors in the first 50 pages:
p38: the classes Student and Employee should derive from Person.
p48: "Unfortunately, with the event keyword, Completed is just a public field of type delegate,
which can be stepped on by anyone who wants to"
which should read "..., without the event keyword...".
These might be minor details to an experienced reader, but for someone new to C#, it's very confusing.
What's more annoying is the lack of a place to submit errata so that new printings can correct these defects.
I thought about how vast the topic of collections and arrays is. Hejlsberg et. al. provide only an 8 page chapter on "Arrays" which hits some of the high points but to me was mostly fluff. Nothing on collections, nothing on what types and categories of collections exist by function, or even by name. There is a similar chapter on Delegates.
I bought this book with the intention of learning all the aspects of the C# language. I have read the first few chapters so far and I have to say I am lost! The book is just way too intense, it is clearly designed for someone with a "PHD" level of knowledge of C# and/or programming. The little "blurb" boxes from all the writers don't really help at all. The book is just way too technical! I clearly bought the wrong book. I would not recommend this book to anyone who is starting out on C# and/or programming.
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