Learn C#

[BoredBloke]

Are there any good books that you lot can suggest? I've done a fair amount in VBA but want to use something proper.

 

[Gentile]

Are there any good books that you lot can suggest? I've done a fair amount in VBA but want to use something proper.

Professional C# 4.0 and .NET 4 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

 

[Spacecadet]

I used this
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-V...4305/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342129979&sr=8-1

and a tulip load of google.

I prefer my learning to be task orientated so last year I set myself a nice big project to do in c# and got started.

 

[Scrag Meister]

Andy Troelson

I set myself a nice big project to do in c# and got started.

How's it going?

 

[eek]

Andy Troelson



How's it going?

Hello World

 

[Scrag Meister]

Hello World

1337 skillz right there.

 

[Spacecadet]

Andy Troelson



How's it going?

partners on board and possible commercial release in 6 months
Whether it makes any money or not is a completely different matter altogether but it does address what I think is a gap in the market

 

[Scrag Meister]

partners on board and possible commercial release in 6 months
Whether it makes any money or not is a completely different matter altogether but it does address what I think is a gap in the market

Was also interested in whether you saw that approach as working for you in learning C#?

You now a c# guru?

 

[VectraMan]

I did C++ for 15 years, and then got a C# contract. I'd recommend that approach.

 

[Spacecadet]

Was also interested in whether you saw that approach as working for you in learning C#?

You now a c# guru?

It worked for me as being a personal project I could spend longer researching how to do stuff rather than just blindly copy and pasting from stack overflow and the like.

The only bad side is that I've limited what I've had to learn; I wasn't interested in building a front end, so I've still no/very little forms experience