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5 comments about C#: Your Visual Blueprint for Building .Net Applications (With CD-ROM).

1. this is book is very clearly laid out as with other
   visual blueprint books
   there are however some interesting examples in the
   book which do not work which makes it very fustrating.
   In addition, there is alot of repeated information
   and too many pages wasted on how to look up for
   documentation.

   the book however does give the reader the ability
   enough information to follow up with a more advanced book
   as intended




2. I am almost to the end of the book
   I liked the blueprint for c++.net but this copy for
   c# had alot of illustrations on finding information
   on msdn and led the reader away from the purpose of the
   book
   The examples were not really numbered according to the
   chapters. There was a very bad coverage on the forms
   in the book with bad and non working examples. Poor use of illustrations for 'set and get
   features with no working examples'.
   There was alot of errors in 30% of the examples.
   I am down to the last 4 chapters and have yet to be
   impressed as a beginner of C#.
   I have already covered the wrox beginner c# so I was
   expecting material of the same calibre but instead
   this had turned to be a waste of time
   for the 10/15 chapters of the book



3. This book is based on the Beta release of C# and is is full of typos, errors, and misprints. The screen shots at the bottom of each page have been reduced to the point where they are hard to read. Since C# is a new programming language, it appears that the authors did not know C# as well as they should have or the publisher was in a hurry to get this book to market. When Visual Studio.Net was in the beta, a lot of companies tried to saturate the market with C#, Visual Basic, ASP, and ADO books. This book is not up to par with the usual Maran Graphics high quality. Your dollars would be be wisely spent elsewhere. I would recommend Robert Oberg's "Introduction to C# using .Net" instead. Hopefully the authors and publisher of this book are working on a "Second edition" to correct the issues. The idea of "virtual blueprint" is good but this book needs to be editted and the bugs removed.



4. Wow!!! This book is really badly written. I was impressed by their ASP book as an introductory crash course and it worked because ASP is easy anyway. But C# and object oriented programming seem to be beyond the authors' understanding. Everything is referred to as a box. I have 6 years of OO programming and even I found it difficult to read and understand. It is Repetitive. Based on old beta .NET. Not organized. Topics mixed all over the place. Confusing. Repetitive. Some sentences just stop halfway through. The real world objects they compare to are a joke. The same facts are mentioned over and over again in the same confusing way. Jargon is used and facts are thrown in at random but with no explanations. I wish I had read other people's comments before I bought it. Did I mention it is repetitive?



5. I am quite dissapointed over this book. I thought it would be a beginners book, but it turned out to be a book with many absurd repetitions and examples which won't help you with any understanding. It's actually not a learning book, but rather small step by step tutorials on how to do things.

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