Sams Teach Yourself C# in 24 Hours

• Author: James Foxall and Wendy Haro-Chun
• Format: HTML
• Price: free

This book provides readers with 24 structured lessons that provide a light, but thorough introduction to C#. The author moves beyond the pure syntax covered in existing books, to guide readers step-by-step through a cohesive presentation of the basics of C#.
Once the basics are understood, he shows the reader how to apply this knowledge to real-world Windows programming tasks using C#.
Each chapter contains exercises that reinforce the lessons learned. Tips, Notes, and Cautions provide additional advice from the authors on how to get up to speed and programming quickly with C#.
Sidebars provide the more experienced reader with tips that will ease their migration from Visual Basic 6 and Visual C++ to C#.
The book is excellent for beginners who have never seen an IDE before. The author uses the term C# where he should use the term "Visual Studio .NET" instead. C# is a programming language. For instance, the second chapter is titled "Navigating C#" but he really talks about navigating the IDE. I suspect a search-replace of C# to VB.NET you could convert it into a VB.NET book.
(of course with a bit more than that).
I was looking for a book to quickly learn the LANGUAGE C#, not a study of Visual Studio .NET, which takes all of about 1 hour or less for an experienced software developer to learn. If the title were changed to "Teach Yourself Visual Studio.NET in 24 hours", I'd give it 5 stars.
Bottom line, if you are a C++ or Java software engineer who wants to come up to speed on C#, this is not the book for you.


Chapters include:

• Hour 1. A C# Programming Tour
• Hour 2. Navigating C#
• Hour 3. Understanding Objects and Collections
• Hour 4. Understanding Events
• Hour 5. Building Forms Part I
• Hour 6. Building Forms Part II
• Hour 7. Working with the Traditional Controls
• Hour 8. Advanced Controls
• Hour 9. Adding Menus and Toolbars to Forms
• Hour 10. Drawing and Printing
• Hour 11. Creating and Calling Methods
• Hour 12. Using Constants, Data Types, Variables, and Arrays
• Hour 13. Performing Arithmetic, String Manipulation, and Date/Time Adjustments
• Hour 14. Making Decisions in C# Code
• Hour 15. Looping for Efficiency
• Hour 16. Debugging Your Code
• Hour 17. Designing Objects Using Classes
• Hour 18. Interacting with Users
• Hour 19. Performing File Operations
• Hour 20. Controlling Other Applications Using Automation
• Hour 21. Working with a Database
• Hour 22. Deploying a Solution
• Hour 23. Introduction to Web Development
• Hour 24. The 10,000-Foot View

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