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A Programmer's Introduction to C# Review by Jan Moren
Not really happy
This text has the possibility of being really good. The author obviously has some fresh ideas on how to structure and present Yet Another Language Text that does not follow the tried (and perhaps tired) structure of the classics.
Unfortunately, the text lets me down in several ways. First, there are plenty of glaring misprints in the code examples; this can be pretty devastating when you tend to rely on the examples to gain insight in the language. The index, too has reference errors, which is more than a little annoying.
The biggest problem with this text, however, is in the structure. The subjects seem to come in no particular order at all, and many things are used in examples that aren't explained until much later - now, this is unavoidable, of course, but a short reference to a place where you can read up on it would have been good. The author starts right off with exception handling, the motivation being that it is important, and this way, examples can use exception handling. Great idea - except the examples never do, making the early focus on it somewhat moot. I get the feeling the book was intended to look quite different, and has been edited to death in the interest of lowering the page count.
This could have been a very good book on this subject. As it is, it is better than nothing, but I would recommmend looking elsewhere for a better text.