General C# books do they cover oop enough??

Question

User1468341083 posted

I was looking for a strong book on C#  that should be in my opinion very strong using oop techniques and that's where

alot of general  C# books  fall apart.

I bought  Pro C# by troelson in 2005 (overloading explanation-poor) and found the chapters on oop not very good

his 2010 C# seems to be better although oop techniques really lack the depth they deserve  

Is is best to buy two books In other words one covering general C#??

2 another  C# another oop techniques

Has anyone read deitel's c# book It seems to me that is one of the strongest book covering the subject of oop????  

I just bought scott Millett's asp.net design pattern book-I really like it alot   I am thinking about

dependency in net maybe mvvm

What is your suggestion?   

Answer 1

User1845063199 posted

Try O'Reilly publications they are good at explaination...

Answer 2

User1468341083 posted

Thanks for your suggestion however I was thinking along jeffrey richter CLt C# or

deitel's book on C# seems like these are the sharpest books on oop in C#

I just wish someone who has read these books would respond....Thanks  I need a very strong oop book

on C# programming enterprise level  

Answer 3

User-821857111 posted

Jeffrey Richter's book is not an OOP book. It's not even a C# book. It covers how the Common Language Runtime works, but uses C# to illustrate this.

Answer 4

User2097818059 posted

Dietel is my favorite. I dont really rely on books as much because most of the information is out on the web now. However, Dietel books do target diffrent experience levels and that makes it a little easier. 

This was a good one but is now outdated thanks to how fast technology is moving.

http://www.amazon.com/For-Experienced-Programmers-Deitel-Developer/dp/0130461334/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1331755993&sr=8-6

Answer 5

User-434868552 posted

@ billsm

FWIW, there are books on OOP and there are c# books ...

an OOP book will focus on understanding OOP ... a c# book will be more focused on syntax and less focused on OOP.

my favourite c# book for starting from square one is Tom Archer's book: "inside c#". 2001, 403 pp.*

Part I Laying the Groundwork
     Chapter 1 - Fundamentals of Object -Oriented Programming
     Chapter 2 - Introducing Microsoft .NET
     Chapter 3 - Hello, C#
Part II C# Class Fundamentals
     Chapter 4 - The Type System
     Chapter 5 - Classes
     Chapter 6 - Methods
     Chapter 7 - Properties, Arrays, and Indexers
     Chapter 8 - Attributes
     Chapter 9 - Interfaces
Part III Writing Code
     Chapter 10 - Expressions and Operators
     Chapter 11 - Program Flow Control
     Chapter 12 - Error Handling with Exceptions
     Chapter 13 - Operator Overloading and User-Defined Conversions
     Chapter 14 - Delegates and Event Handlers
Part IV Advanced C#
     Chapter 15 - Multithreaded Programming
     Chapter 16 - Querying Metadata with Reflection
     Chapter 17 - Interoperating with Unmanaged Code
     Chapter 18 - Working with Assemblies 

Please note that c# has evolved since Archer wrote his book; imho, "inside c#" may be the best place to start learning c# ... however, you'll eventually want to get access to more up to date texts.

This is a very old book (1993):

http://www.amazon.com/Object-Oriented-Programming-Peter-Coad/dp/013032616X

you can browse chunks of Coad's book at amazon.com ... even though the book was written in 1993, i'd buy it today.

g.

* there's a second edition http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/book.aspx?id=5861
    "Inside C#", Second Edition, 2002, Tom Archer, Andrew Whitechapel; 912 ? pp.
      ISBN 13: 9780735616486; ISBN 10: 0-7356-1648-5

 

 

 

 

Answer 6

User-821857111 posted

c# has evolved since Archer wrote his book

@billsm

I would insert the word "considerably" to that statement from Gerry:

c# has evolved considerably since Archer wrote his book

Most of the features you will see being used today (Generics, Linq, Lambdas etc) were added in 2005 and later.

Answer 7

User-434868552 posted

@  Mikesdotnetting  Hi Mike ...

yes, i strongly agree with you ... c# has absolutely matured from an excellent "birth" considerably in many ways, to become a much better language since its introduction  ...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb383815.aspx "What's New in Visual C# 2010"

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb308966.aspx "Overview of C# 3.0", Anders Hejlsberg, Mads Torgersen

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7cz8t42e(v=vs.80).aspx "What's New in the C# 2.0 Language and Compiler" vs2005

minor:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa984213(v=vs.71).aspx "What's New in Visual Basic and Visual C#" vs2003

Tom Archer's book, imho, is the best AFAIK starting place for learning c# because, at least for me, "inside c#" provides an excellent foundation on which to build one's understanding of c#; if i had a time-machine, i would travel back in time and make "inside c#" the first book that i read about c# (of course, for sci-fi fans, such an action would probably mess up the present ... perhaps, horrid thought, we'd all be programming in COBOL).

gerry

Answer 8

User2097818059 posted

I like to advise a primer before diving into the language. To much focus is put on learning the language without even understanding Object Oriented Programming. Students often want to know how to write to the screen and solve their data structure problems and are seldom focused on understanding the core concepts of OO.

I like the Object Oriented thought process for beginners.

http://www.amazon.com/Object-Oriented-Thought-Process-The-Edition/dp/0672330164/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331838397&sr=8-1

Answer 9

User1109032460 posted

If I could "Like" 

KenParkerJr's

post I would.

Hits the nail precisely on the head. Learn OOP independently of the idioms and vagaries of a particular implementation. Then learn the implementation. 

The book recommendation for The Object Oriented Thought Process is spot on. It's great.