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Programming C# 10
C# is undeniably one of the most versatile programming languages available to engineers today. With this comprehensive guide, you'll learn just how powerful the combination of C# and .NET can be. Author Ian Griffiths guides you through C# 10.0 and .NET 6 fundamentals and techniques for building cloud, web, and desktop applications. Designed for experienced programmers, this book provides many code examples to help you work with the nuts and bolts of C#, such as generics, LINQ, and asynchronous programming features. You'll get up to speed on .NET 6 and the latest C# 9.0 and 10.0 additions, including records, enhanced pattern matching, and new features designed to remove "ceremony" to improve productivity. "Unlike books that focus on Visual Studio and technologies that interact with C#, this one covers the core language, and mastery of this core is essential to successfully building good software. It covers important concepts followed by generous code examples to explain them. It's thorough, detailed, and gets at the nooks and crannies of the language rarely covered elsewhere. It's a complete course on C#."--Jeremy MorganSoftware/DevOps Engineer Ian Griffiths has worked in various aspects of computing, including computer networking, embedded real-time systems, broadcast television systems, medical imaging, and all forms of cloud computing. Ian is a Technical Fellow at endjin, and a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies. He's the author of several O'Reilly books and has written courses on Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and TPL Tables. Technology brings him joy.
836 pages, ebook
Published August 5, 2022
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November 6, 2022
I have slightly mixed feelings. It's an OK book to learn C#, but that's it.
As a tutorial to the language, it does a great job. Seems to cover everything important and doesn't leave big blanks when it comes to the fundamentals. If your goal is to learn C# and you picked this book, you're likely to be good.
It fell short for me in two ways.
First, the "advanced" concepts like multithreading, rx, asyc/await and even LINQ are not explained well. Sure, you can get a sense of them, but you don't get a methodical exploration on what's there and how it works. The multithreading chapter in particular was the biggest offender. A lot of concepts were mentioned and a lot of sentences were written about them, but you'll struggle to actually grok how it works in C#, even if you're an experienced developer that has done multithreading. I was already very proficient with Rx from both RxSwift and RxJS, but I doubt somebody new to this would get it from the book. It just doesn't explain things well.
Second, it's light on code examples, and a lot of the examples are unnecessarily weird – either they are more complicated than they need to be, or don't show everything that they should be showing. Instead, there is a lot of narrative, which is again, tricky to follow.
As a tutorial to the language, it does a great job. Seems to cover everything important and doesn't leave big blanks when it comes to the fundamentals. If your goal is to learn C# and you picked this book, you're likely to be good.
It fell short for me in two ways.
First, the "advanced" concepts like multithreading, rx, asyc/await and even LINQ are not explained well. Sure, you can get a sense of them, but you don't get a methodical exploration on what's there and how it works. The multithreading chapter in particular was the biggest offender. A lot of concepts were mentioned and a lot of sentences were written about them, but you'll struggle to actually grok how it works in C#, even if you're an experienced developer that has done multithreading. I was already very proficient with Rx from both RxSwift and RxJS, but I doubt somebody new to this would get it from the book. It just doesn't explain things well.
Second, it's light on code examples, and a lot of the examples are unnecessarily weird – either they are more complicated than they need to be, or don't show everything that they should be showing. Instead, there is a lot of narrative, which is again, tricky to follow.
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