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.NET-A Complete Development Cycle Review by Thriphty
Excellent building block for your .NET career
This book is excellent if you are a Computer Science student or a programmer looking to get into .NET. The book uses the unified software development process and weaves .NET with an iterative model consisting of requirements, analysis, design, implementation and testing. The reader plays the role of a team member and is assigned tasks. Hence in a way this book simulates a real work environment, and in my opinion it does a pretty good job. Obviously a real work environment has many other issues but those are out of the scope of this book. This book covers a lot in 500 pages. After this book a person can then get into more dense books which explain the .NET framework and programming in more detail such as:
#1. Jeff Prosise's Programming .NET
#2. Dino Esposito's ASP.NET and ADO.NET
#3. Jeffrey Richter's .NET Framework
#4. Dino Esposito's Applied XML Programming for Microsoft.NET
#5. John Robbin's Debugging Applications with .NET and Windows Applications
All these books are written by authoritative and well respected individuals in the industry, but these books might be too indepth and overwhelming for a person looking to get his/her feet wet with .NET. Once you get started with .NET then these books will be an excellent resource for building your .NET career, actually at the end of various chapters Lenz and Moeller have referenced these same books for further reading.
Bottom Line: ".NET A complete Development Cycle" does an excllent job of building a .NET foundation on which you can construct your .NET career by continously learning from the list of books I have mentioned above in combination with real world experience.
Word of Advice: Before starting ".NET A complete Development Cycle" you should be able to program and I don't mean Hello World, you should be comfortable with OOP, it would work best if you knew C#. If you are a novice to programming then you will have a hard time. In my opinion the minimum reader proficiency should be that of a senior year Computer Science student. However, there are always exceptions if you have worked a lot with html, have done some scripting, understand how the internet works, file structures, okay working with an IDE and don't mind digging in a little bit than you can also use this book.