C#: Learn C# in One Day and Learn It Well. C# for Beginners with Hands-on Project. (Learn Coding Fast with Hands-On Project Book 3) Kindle Edition

This book is absolutely great at what it is intended for- a "quick and dirty" run through of C# programming Semester 1 and Semester 2- based on many easy to do, practical exercises. I really, really liked that I didn't have to stop every 2 minutes to go check out related content online nor "see author's website for the practical exercises". It's all here in the book.You may want to supplement it though with a second textbook however, to slightly better flesh out some of the concepts that are covered fairly quickly- this is a bit of a barebones book. Which frankly I enjoyed, this book didn't suffer from any of the page bloat or arcane technobabble that plague some of the developer's references and college course textbooks.My single critique- and one that I am subtracting 1 full star from my review for... is the title. It is wrong, and greatly misleading. This book will not teach you C# well in one day. It probably takes about 2 or 3 weeks to get through the book (assuming you are practicing and drilling into memory what you have learned) and even though this book is an excellent "starter guide", you will not "know C# well" from this book alone.

I am 74, not a recommend age to start learning programming. Did a lot of programming back at the time of VisualBasic 1 thru 3 and then decided there were more interesting things... I am now a SOA specialist and I have decided it is time to start programming again, with a more modern tool and chose .Net C#. I intend to start writing web services (soon) :).The book I am reviewing has turned out to be perfect: I now understand OOP quite clearly as implemented by C# and I love debugging step by step the code which comes with the book. It makes everything so clear.the book makes sure every single line of code is explained. I am now adding my own comments, step by step into the code (can't rely much any more on the old neurons) and feel I am progressing quite steadily. Isn't this what a beginner's book should be about?Make sure to comment a copy of the code since for some reason, a nasty "Error CS0501 'Program.Main(string[])' must declare a body because it is not marked abstract, extern, or partial" has begun appearing in the code :(Will keep updating this post.Update: Although I was aware of it, I failed to mention that the error mentioned above had nothing to do with the author's code -which presents no mistake that I am aware of - but rather came from my fiddling with the code. The error disappeared without explanation:)

I have been programming for 30 years including C# and other OO languages. But I never had any formal OO training. This meant I could make programs work and get correct output but my style sucked, I was usually confused and I certainly never exploited the strengths of the languages I was using. (Apology here to all the folks that had to maintain that crap after I left.) I needed conceptual help not programming techniques. The first 6 chapters teach basic programming techniques. I skimmed them but didn't learn much. Starting with chapter 7 the emphasis changed to OOP. Lightbulbs are flashing all over the place. I am having a series of epiphanies. I am thrilled with the clarity and depth of the writing. This book is exactly what I need at this point in my career. It is everything I hoped for. It gives me the vocabulary to discuss my work with my team. I cannot overemphasize that last point. Having the vocabulary is essential to understanding the tool. Well done, Jamie Chan. Well done.

The book makes assumptions without clarifying previously the location or directions. It's not tremendously clear for a brand new coder and is missing critical components in it's projects, such as Console.ReadLine();. Without that line, which isn't included on the 2nd task, you cannot view output and won't know it was successful.Overall, this book is for individuals changing coding languages, not someone new to coding at all.Worth it if you know a language and just need to learn C# syntax.If you are brand new to coding, skip it.

Of course, if I am writing a review on a beginner book on C#, that suggests that I am a novice at C#, so what would I know about it? But I can tell if a book is clear, concise, well laid out, well written, accurate, etc. Compared to other books I have read in this price range and category, this is totally superior. It has an index, page numbers, good examples, well chosen content, and presented in reasonable order as to building of content. And the code is well laid out on the page also - not confusing to read.I even contacted Jamie, the author, who is extremely personable and actively involved in making any improvements to make this the best publication on the market.If you are going to get a first book on C#, I would put this at the top of the list. Until I read this book I was thinking of writing my own because of the huge incompetence or indifference as to accuracy, etc. that I have found in other entry-level publications to C#. Like I said, I am a novice, but I still thought I could write a better book than others have done - until Jamie's book.Of course, you are not going to learn C# Well in One Day - perhaps if you have a photographic memory or better. So, perhaps the title is misleading. Don't let the title throw you off though. It is a great publication.

I can say this book is garbage. The author references to the Microsoft website to acquire code samples. Throughout the book this is what the author does. It is a bother if you want to study while away from a computer or internet access. I bought a book so I could read the book and have full code available with an explanation of how it should have worked.Instead of buying this garbage book, go google c# tutorials and you will get more from them for less money.If a book is what you seek, I found Microsoft Visual C# Step by Step to be a better book by far. It is worth spending more money on.

There is nothing misleading with the product description; it is what is missing that has proved to be the downfall for me. OK so what is missing?The product description fails to declare that all the learning will be undertaken with console applications. If you dont know what console applications are then let me put it this way - you won't be designing or using typical Windows. Or if you are old enough then it looks like a DOS program, or Linux Terminal.As I say there is nothing technically wrong with the product description.Could you learn in a day - I suspect so. The learning pace is clearly incremented by the Author and well explained. The book is not particularly long so a day is achievable. I have been programming since the late 1970's in a variety of languages and this book has helped me see how C# typically names things and the general patterns of methods.

Good attempt.... But....This book is lacking independent practical exercises to make the reader think. Like most people, I learn through doing. While the explanations are concise and well written, it needs these exercises at the end of the chapter that don't hold your hand. That way builds layers of knowledge and confirms you are ready to move on to the next chapter.It does ask you to follow along to the writers examples but just copying will not make it stick. (At least for me)Its a shame because it could easily be 5 stars due to the way this is condensed. I will use this as a reference to other books.

I am not a programmer. I am a scientist and engineer who wanted to bolster my skills by adding some programming knowledge. I have coded in basic C for about a year for work but am certainly not an expert. I have some new projects coming up which will use some C# and C++ so i wanted to get an introduction and add these languages into my limited coding skillset. I found this book on amazon and purchased it as a kindle e-book.The book is well written and easy to follow. it breaks you in gently and builds up to the headier concepts of classes etc. having coded in c the first few chapters were very straightforward (as they are very similar) but moving into the classes and more detailed code took a bit more time to sink in. The final big project was good to do. it was worked through in a good way (with the author discussing what needed to be written but not writing the code out explicitly so the reader had to draw up their knowledge of the preceding chapters to code it).My main criticism is that, with the exception of the last big project at the end, there aren't any real exercises for practice in the book. This has been mentioned by some other reviewers. Whilst you are encouraged to write out the code in each chapter to experience how the code works and is written, there aren't any separate exercises. It's an exercise in copying out code until the last chapter. I would have thought a couple of much smaller projects worked in between a couple of chapter, that are walked through like in the final project, would have been very useful and made this a 5 star review. Not to mention they would have very much helped with solidifying the knowledge.good book though, in general

I work in tech and had a bit of background in troubleshooting C# applications at a code level. However never really wrote it and needed to boost my c# skills. I had tried many other material like videos and other books. however by a million miles this is the book that made it click. Very well written, very good flow to the content, clearly the content has been thought out by the author. A particular highlight is the section on c# inheritance and implementations.I lent the book out to someone and never got it back which is a shame, but they really have got a gem of a book.

The book offers code samples via the author's website - handy because I don't want to type in all the code by hand. However, the website insists on taking your name and email address - promising "no spam" despite it's clearly a mailing list subscription and I don't want to join a mailing list! To cap it all, the email asking me to confirm my address didn't work, so I guess I'll be typing those examples in after all! So I've wasted several hours on this when I could be getting on with learning C#¯\_(ツ)_/¯