C# book for 16 yo?

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From: Jon Shemitz (jon_at_midnightbeach.com)
Date: 10/22/04 

Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:27:27 -0700

My 16 yo son is ready to move beyond level editing and "Multimedia
Fusion." He's going to ignore his Mom's suggestion of Visual Basic,
and take my suggestion of starting with C#. Now, I actually have
an Intro To C# section in my ongoing .NET 2.0 book, but I assumed
that my audience does not want e.g. yet another discussion of
inheritance and polymorphism - it's all "same but different" and "this
is new." In short, not suitable for a programming novice.

Were I even the slightest bit Stakovian, I'd seize this opportunity to
write a programming primer for my son. But, at the rate I work, I'd
deliver the chapters much too slowly to be much use to my student. I
wonder if anyone could recommend a book that explains the fundamentals
of variables, statements, methods, objects, &c, using C#?

Failing that, I guess I can generate a couple pages of notes for each
tutoring session and go without a proper text, but a good book would
probably be easier for both of us. 

-- 
<http://www.midnightbeach.com/dotnet>

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