good intro

Pretty standard Dummies book. I almost always learn a lot from them, and this one was no exception. It covers all the object oriented standards- encapsulation, classes, enumeration, etc. with lots of good examples and little overly confusing syntax. Mildly flippant, as standard for the informal tone of the series, but while rarely very funny it does help keep it light. If you're wanting a joke book this isn't it, in other words, but it does the job for an intro to C#.

My only real complaint, as often seems to be the case with cd's in books, was that a lot of the licenses or something had expired and I wasn't able to run anything. For a programmer I'm pretty clunky at techy things, but I think this wasn't my fault. Still a good book- much more detail than "Learning in the Key of c#", for example. Probably the Head First is a better overall learning book than this one, but you can get through Dummies a lot faster.

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