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Head First C# is a complete learning experience for object-oriented programming, C#, and the Visual Studio IDE. Built for your brain, this book covers C# 3.0 and Visual Studio 2008, and teaches everything from language fundamentals to advanced topics including garbage collection, extension methods, and double-buffered animation. You'll also master C#'s hottest and newest syntax, LINQ, for querying SQL databases, .NET collections, and XML documents. By the time you're through, you'll be a proficient C# programmer, designing and coding large-scale applications.

Every few chapters you will come across a lab that lets you apply what you've learned up to that point. Each lab is designed to simulate a professional programming task, increasing in complexity until-at last-you build a working Invaders game, complete with shooting ships, aliens descending while firing, and an animated death sequence for unlucky starfighters. This remarkably engaging book will have you going from zero to 60 with C# in no time flat.

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A Learner's Guide to Real-World Programming with Visual C# and .NET

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Jennifer Greene studied philosophy in college but, like everyone else in the field, couldn't find a job doing it. Luckily, she's a great software tester, so she started out doing it at an online service, and that's the first time she got a good sense of what project management was. She moved to New York in 1998 to test software at a financial software company. She managed a team of testers at a really cool startup that did artificial intelligence and natural language processing. Since then, she's managed large teams of programmers, testers, designers, architects, and other engineers on lots of projects, and she's done a whole bunch of procurement management. She loves traveling, watching Bollywood movies, drinking carloads of carbonated beverages, and owing a whippet. For more information about Jennifer, Andrew Stellman, and their books, visit http://www.stellman-greene.com.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (6 Dec. 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0596514824
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0596514822
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.32 x 3.91 x 23.5 cm

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Andrew Stellman is a developer, architect, speaker, agile coach, project manager, and expert in building better software. He has over two decades of professional experience building software, and has architected large-scale real-time back end systems, managed large international software teams, been a Vice President at a major investment bank, and consulted for companies, schools, and corporations, including Microsoft, the National Bureau of Economic Research, Bank of America, Notre Dame, and MIT. He's had the privilege of working with some pretty amazing programmers during that time, and likes to think that he's learned a few things from them.
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Jennifer Greene is an agile coach, development manager, business analyst, project manager, tester, speaker, and authority on software engineering practices and principles. She’s been building software for over twenty years in many different domains including media, finance, and IT consulting. She’s worked with teams of excellent developers and testers to tackle tough technical problems and focused her career on finding and fixing the habitual process issues that crop up along the way.
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So you wanna learn C#?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 May 2014

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It's great. I might have to update the review once I'm at least halfway with the book, but for now I have to say, yes, do buy it if you need or want to learn C#. What some books lack, especially the ones that teach certain subjects is that they don't speak the right language and hence confuse and put off the reader. This book has been designed to make the learning experience as enjoyable as possible. It is not an easy task, but if you decided to program, this is your best bet

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A course, not a reference manual

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 September 2009

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At last! A book that is designed for people to learn from.
Previously I had looked at various C# books and PDF books and they seemed to all take an approach analogous to learning English by reading a dictionary and a grammar guide.
This is superb. By the end of chapter 1 you've made a mini contacts database application.
A couple of chapters after that and you've made an animated "game".
And it's readable! This is the programming book I've been looking for.
I come from a VBA background, so programming isn't too scary, but object-oriented stuff was a bit of a mystery. I'm beginning to see the light, and I'm only up to chapter 7.
Someone deserves a medal for this book.

3 people found this helpful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 May 2010

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Great book for begginers explains how to do everything step by step with lots of tutorials and examples. This is not a reference book though so dont buy this book if you just need to look something up. This book is good if you have never done programming before or something along those lines.

Hands-On Tutorial Book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 November 2009

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Get your hands dirty writing C# code! This book explains code in a very innovative way: how things work, why and let you master the concepts by doing it. I would recommend another book as a companion of this book to master modeling part of the programming: Beginning C# Objects: From Concepts to Code. Happy coding!

Excellent fun learning

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 January 2013

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Like many other reviews, I am finding this book an excellent introduction to C#. Practical and fun, I am making considerable headway through the projects and tasks placed before me. Don't think I've ever read as much of a huge tome like this before (without giving up or getting bored), and am still finding it interesting and fun. For me its quirky approach is certainly working, giving me many "aha" moments.

Very useful for Beginners

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 January 2014

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As a beginner, I love this book. This book has so many examples to work from. Visual style of the book is really good, it explains stuff to you in such a easy manner. I felt this book is great because it does what it says. Again this is for people with little or no knowledge in programming.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 October 2009

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I bought this book based on the reviews.......did the reviewers actually read this book!
It's probably the worst self learning book I have come across, full of junk that makes it VERY difficult to get to the salient facts.
All the silly scribbles and daft pictures don't help.... maybe its just my age but I like something clear, clean and simple.

I just finished John Smileys book on C# Express 2008 (which is clean, concise and easy to understand) and thought this one may add to my abilities....wrong!
Money wasted!

3 people found this helpful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 August 2013

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Great book I recommend it I absolutely anyone who wants to learn C# and I mean really learn it because it's not a guide its more like a teacher

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