Cruising through book stores, I usually encounter the 800 page behemoths that 'teach you programming in 24 hours' or something similar. I suppose those are good for getting you programming with lots of examples.
However, I like to think I'm a pretty good programmer, having grown up with Pascal, C, and C++. I may be aging myself with that first one, but anyway. So in order to pick up a new language, I don't really need a lot of hand holding. I simply need something to show me the syntax and basic flavour of the language. After that, I can start developing applications quite quickly. Getting used to the libraries of the language is something else altogether. Continue reading "C# Essentials (2nd Edition) by Ben Albahari - A..." »
