Sams Teach Yourself the C# Language in 21 Days

WITH CD, published by Sams  2003, softcover, illustrated,index, 480 pages, condition: new.

.In just 21 days readers will learn how to use the key features of the C# programming language not only the commands, but how to create entire programs using them within a few simple chapters. This book is designed to teach C# from the ground up each lesson is built to supplement the chapter before to provide a fully rounded understanding of the C# language. "Sams Teach Yourself the C# Language in 21 Days" is the only book on the market that takes C# out of the Microsoft Visual Studio and teaches it as a platform-independent language letting readers program for Windows, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X. Additional coverage added from the first edition: more and better Windows Forms information, database access, XML, types, runs, appendix for Visual C++ .NET users, plus much more. This book also includes a CD-ROM full of third-party editor software and sample code, making it an easy-to-use, all-in-one package."

I wasn't able to do everything in 21 days, but it was close. This is a massive book that needs to be read and re-read time and time again. The exercises are very clear and well written and, the coding examples are easy to understand.