[Donnie1581]

Does anyone have any knowledge of some good C# programming books.

The tutorials are good but I would like to get a book that goes into more detail than the tuts.

[PsychoCoder]

Moved to Corner Cubical (Not really a programming question)

[MentalFloss]

Tmeless:
Code Complete
Mythical Man Month

Contextual:
C# 3.0 Design Patterns
Programming C# 3.0

Specialized:
C# Beginning Databases
C# TCP/IP Sockets

Hope this list is enough to get you started. They're all in my collection and I find them to all be wonderful.

[skaoth]

In the past I've found: Pro C# to be pretty good.
http://www.apress.co...view/1590598849

[Donnie1581]

Thanks guys, I need a crash course fast in C# for an upcoming job interview! WooHoo!

[Momerath]

Donnie1581, on 7 Nov, 2009 - 03:53 AM, said:

Thanks guys, I need a crash course fast in C# for an upcoming job interview! WooHoo!

This makes me sad.

[MentalFloss]

Momerath, on 7 Nov, 2009 - 01:07 PM, said:

Donnie1581, on 7 Nov, 2009 - 03:53 AM, said:

Thanks guys, I need a crash course fast in C# for an upcoming job interview! WooHoo!

This makes me sad.

Aww.. but what if he's already very proficient in another language? I mean, programming is programming... syntax takes a couple weeks maybe? and learning the best practices and conventions is another week? Fully back up to speed in a month? Sure, could definitely still be an asset to the company. Is this all really hard to do and probably not gonna happen? - odds are yes.

[Raynes]

MentalFloss, on 7 Nov, 2009 - 01:47 PM, said:

Momerath, on 7 Nov, 2009 - 01:07 PM, said:

Donnie1581, on 7 Nov, 2009 - 03:53 AM, said:

Thanks guys, I need a crash course fast in C# for an upcoming job interview! WooHoo!

This makes me sad.

Aww.. but what if he's already very proficient in another language? I mean, programming is programming... syntax takes a couple weeks maybe? and learning the best practices and conventions is another week? Fully back up to speed in a month? Sure, could definitely still be an asset to the company. Is this all really hard to do and probably not gonna happen? - odds are yes.

It's usually not 'all syntax'. There are libraries to learn, code conventions to learn, features to learn, and that has nothing to do with the syntax. You can learn code conventions in a week, but learning to use them when you're supposed to can take longer. Most languages have language-specific bumps and curves that you have to learn as well.

Also, what if the language is another paradigm? What if you were learning a functional programming language like Haskell or Clojure. Hell, what if you were learning Scala? It's OOP, but the FP side of it makes it extremely awesome. It has features that Java doesn't, and is actually in some ways more OOP in Java. Singleton Objects, traits, etc; these are things you would have to learn to use Scala. It isn't all syntax.

2-3 weeks is very little time to get highly useful in any language.

[carltech]

C# in a nutshell - goes in depth into the language