C# is one of the most powerful programming
language. There are of course lots of traditional books available on the market
for learning C#. But did you ever manage to find a comic style book. If not,
then Head First C# from O'reilly is the book you should check out as it examines
the concept, theory and practice of C# language in a unique way.
The book contains 15 chapters. It begins with a short introduction of building
C# applications using Visual Studio and then examines the basic coding aspects,
types, references, encapsulation, inheritance, interfaces, abstract classes,
enums, collections, events, delegates and graphics. You will also learn the
techniques involved with file and exception handling. The authors provide a
comprehensive coverage of LINQ, which I hope will be useful for advanced
programmers. Moreover, each aspect of the source code has been explained in a
new way which I hope will help readers to understand the concept in a better
manner.
In addition to the coverage of content, each chapter includes exercises, set of
questions with answers, crosswords, puzzles, cartoons and much more. An
interesting aspect of the book is that the authors have marked important content
as notes with arrows in different shapes. In fact, the biography page of the
authors have been artistically laid out in an unique cartoonist way. You can
download sample chapters, chapter wise code samples and graphic files for
certain chapters from the
website
of the publisher.
To summarize, all the pages from the cover page
to last page is in different format and I have not reviewed a book of this style
before. Even though I liked the overall look and feel of the book, I found it
little difficult to get accustomed with the book since its internal pages are
quite different from traditional books. The pages are scattered with arrows,
diagrams which made reading little difficult but I enjoyed it. If you look at a
page for some time, then you will automatically learn how to adapt to the book.
From my point of view, it is difficult to author a book of this nature and I am
sure both the authors and the publisher deserve credit. If you would like to
learn C# in an informal and funny way then Head First C# is waiting for you. Go
and grab it until stock is finished.
About the book
| Rating |
**** |
 |
| Title |
Head First C# |
| Author |
Andrew
Stellman, Jennifer Greene |
| Edition |
November 2007 |
| Publisher |
O'Reilly |
| ISBN |
978-0-596-51482-2 |
| Price |
US$49.99 |
| Page Count |
738 |
About the Author
Anand Narayanaswamy (Microsoft MVP) works as an independent
consultant and runs NetAns Technologies.
NetAns provides affordable, reliable and secured web hosting
services for the community. Anand also runs
LearnXpress.com,
Dotnetalbum.com
and Csharpfaq.com. He
regularly regularly contributes articles, product and book reviews for
various websites.
He can be reached at
ananddotnet@yahoo.co.in
