The Dark Art of C# Programming: .Net Core Language

By Gaia Asher

The Dark Art of C# Programming By Gaia Asher C# is the new programming language at the core of the Microsoft .Net initiative. If you want to be on the .Net bandwagon, you need this language. And how... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155395050X
• ISBN13: 9781553950509
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Precise and to the point

It's started on a slope of the hill... Three hackers, one from mainframe, another from Linux, and the third one from Java, decide to learn the new language from Microsoft... Their dialogs inserted across the book take a very small part of the text, but they add the humor and very nice personal touch, such as I did not see since Algol-68 specifications. And they also help to understand many things much better.What is probably the best thing, I like about this book, is that it does not just say what the language does, but why it does that and why it was designed this way. Frankly, I was puzzled by #region directive in C# before, and now it makes perfect sense.I also like, that this book is concentrated on the actual language, not on Microsoft tools and which key to press, when computer wants "any" key. This book respects the reader, assumes simple things, and explains complex ones. At least it worked this way for me.

Great book to learn C#

I work at Microsoft, so I am naturally interested in new publications on .Net and C#. I like this book. It's concise and compact, the language is simple and informative, and it delivers well on the promise of completeness. I find especially useful parallels with other languages, like C++ and Java. It's sometimes easy to miss some subtle changes between languages and assume something, which is not true, with nasty bugs as a result. Such comparison helps to avoid that.I also like that author managed to put so much information into relatively small volume. Most computer books are so bulky that it takes weeks to read through in your free time. And when you are working 10-12 hours a day, you don't have much free time. Not with this book. It can be slowly read in evenings in a week, and if you want just to get a grip on the language and start to write code, single evening may be enough.The only word of caution could be that the book does not really cover .Net Framework library. I actually like that, because I hate the books describing libraries, there is SDK documentation for this. And that left a space for a deeper description of the language intricacies, which are essential. But some people may consider it a flaw.