This is a great introduction to .Net. I'm an experienced programmer in multiple other languages but at the time of getting this book I hadn't broken into the .Net platform. This book allowed me to pick up the language syntax and visual studio very quickly. This book provides a solid foundation of what everyone needs to know about C#. There is a lot more to the language but that's a lot easier to learn on your own then the basics. Thanks Jeff!

This is a great introduction to .Net. I'm an experienced programmer in multiple other languages but at the time of getting this book I hadn't broken into the .Net platform. This book allowed me to pick up the language syntax and visual studio very quickly. This book provides a solid foundation of what everyone needs to know about C#. There is a lot more to the language but that's a lot easier to learn on your own then the basics. Thanks Jeff!

I wish this book was around when I was first learning C#. It has a good and clear explanation of the language basics. In fact, I would say it contains the best explanation of delegates and events I have ever seen (very important since they are both essential to .NET programming, and also a bit hard to grasp at first.) Suddeth's explanation is clear and easy to follow, as well as accurate (and yes, I have read books that said things about delegates that just weren't quite right.) It also gives a nice introduction to some advanced topics (I found its discussion of threading helful when I wrote my first piece of code that needed to spawn a new thread), and includes discussion of some of the neat features introduced in 2.0.

So many programming books are way too long -- this book is just the right size. The editing could be better, but overall, it is more than worth the price tag.