Book Review: C# 2012 in Simple Steps

21st July 2013
Book Review: C# 2012 in Simple Steps

C# 2012 IN SIMPLE STEPS: Kogent Learning Solutions Inc.; published in India by Dreamtech Press New Delhi 110002; 384 Pages; Rs. 299
There is no shortage of programming languages – but users generally go for a language thsat involves least coding and has widest acceptability. Microsoft’s Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) has emerged as popular choice and C# has the rich graphical interfaces that while offering the ease of a high level programming language to work with Visual Studio.
This book, brought to India in an affordable edition, is a useful and elegant guide to C# using the 2012 edition of Visual Studio.
Starting with an introduction to the .Net framework, the book covers the essential features of C# v. 5.0 including control structures, Object Orienting Programming (OOP), the elements of forms, tool bars and menus as well as Windows Presentation basics.
While beginners will find it a well graded intro to C# programming, more mature users will also benefit from sections like WPF and XAML … a good reference to have beside your desktop machine-  Anand Parthasarathy July 20 2013.
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