Seeking book recommendations

3 Apr 2005 12:37 PM

Paul Richards

Hi,
I have several years experience with both C++ and Java and I am eager
to learn C#. Are there any books you can recommend to someone with
good programming experience already?

I am not looking for a book which teaches the .NET frameworks as I
assume there is good online reference material. I am also not looking
for something specific to the windows platform.

Currently I am looking at buying both of the following books:
"The C# Programming Language" - Anders Hejlsberg, Scott Wiltamuth,
Peter Golde
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/o bidos/ASIN/0321154916
"C# Language Pocket Reference" - Peter Drayton, Ben Albahari, Ted
Neward
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/o bidos/ASIN/059600429X

Any recommendations (or bewares) would be appreciated.

3 Apr 2005 1:06 PM

Fabio Cannizzo

I am a C++ pogrammer as well.

I found "Professional C# 3rd edition", WROX, good for my needs.

Fabio

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"Paul Richards" <paul.richa***@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1112531835.283736.124810@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
> I have several years experience with both C++ and Java and I am eager
> to learn C#. Are there any books you can recommend to someone with
> good programming experience already?
>
> I am not looking for a book which teaches the .NET frameworks as I
> assume there is good online reference material. I am also not looking
> for something specific to the windows platform.
>
> Currently I am looking at buying both of the following books:
> "The C# Programming Language" - Anders Hejlsberg, Scott Wiltamuth,
> Peter Golde
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/o bidos/ASIN/0321154916
> "C# Language Pocket Reference" - Peter Drayton, Ben Albahari, Ted
> Neward
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/o bidos/ASIN/059600429X
>
>
> Any recommendations (or bewares) would be appreciated.
>

3 Apr 2005 1:10 PM

Paul Richards

Looks quite windows centric from what I can find about it on the web.
Not something I am looking for.

3 Apr 2005 1:57 PM

Rakesh Rajan

Hi Paul,

May I also suggest the C# Cookbook and Nutshell series from ORielly.

Also note that since .NET 2.0 is going to be released shortly, a new set of
books on that (C# 2.0 etc.) would probably be released quite soon - so may be
you shouldn't invest much in .NET 1.1, C# etc. books right now.

HTH,
Rakesh Rajan

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"Paul Richards" wrote:

> Hi,
> I have several years experience with both C++ and Java and I am eager
> to learn C#. Are there any books you can recommend to someone with
> good programming experience already?
>
> I am not looking for a book which teaches the .NET frameworks as I
> assume there is good online reference material. I am also not looking
> for something specific to the windows platform.
>
> Currently I am looking at buying both of the following books:
> "The C# Programming Language" - Anders Hejlsberg, Scott Wiltamuth,
> Peter Golde
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/o bidos/ASIN/0321154916
> "C# Language Pocket Reference" - Peter Drayton, Ben Albahari, Ted
> Neward
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/o bidos/ASIN/059600429X
>
>
> Any recommendations (or bewares) would be appreciated.
>
>

3 Apr 2005 2:30 PM

Paul Richards

The first book I listed apparently covers the major new language
features of C# 2.0.