Re: C# book for 16 yo?
From: Austin Ehlers (liberal*number_eight*_at_ku.edu)
Date: 10/22/04
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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:13:51 -0500
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:27:27 -0700, Jon Shemitz
<jon@midnightbeach.com> wrote:
>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.
Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming by Jeffrey Richter(
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735614229/ ). There really
isn't a better detailed, all-around .NET book out there.
Austin
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