Good C# Books? - Developers

I'm interested in learning some C# with a view to doing some games in XNA or something along those lines, does anyone know any good books for a beginner? I looked up C# for absolute beginners, since I'd heard good things about it, but you can't seem to get that anywhere in the UK. Thanks.

I got a book called: Visual C# 2008 Step by Step by John Sharp It's great. Has a CD with the entire book and exercises on it so it's perfect for learning without that huge book (unless you want it). It's taking things pretty slow for me (I know Visual Basic .NET) but it's very useful. Doesn't do much XNA afaik.

Thanks, I like reading the books, so the CD would just be a bonus. Thanks very much lazy. Anyway, I feel that once I've got the basics done I shouldn't have much of a problem with the tutorials I've seen about and the Microsoft knowledge base or whatever it's called. EDIT: I can get it off Amazon for £20, good price?

[QUOTE=lazyV;13365803]I got a book called: Visual C# 2008 Step by Step [B]by John Sharp[/B] It's great. Has a CD with the entire book and exercises on it so it's perfect for learning without that huge book (unless you want it). It's taking things pretty slow for me (I know Visual Basic .NET) but it's very useful. Doesn't do much XNA afaik.[/QUOTE] Hahaha, his name is actually John#

[QUOTE=Spartan117;13366040]Hahaha, his name is actually John#[/QUOTE] Haha

[QUOTE=Spartan117;13366040]Hahaha, his name is actually John#[/QUOTE] Hah, that's great. Like he was destined to master C# from birth, raised out in the wilderness by Microsoft wolves, then trained to defeat his arch nemesis, John Plusplus.

Also, is this good for a beginner?

[url]http://www.programmersheaven.com/ebooks/csharp_ebook.pdf[/url] That link above is a nice little ebook for free.

[QUOTE=Sh33p;13366313]Also, is this good for a beginner?[/QUOTE] C# is one of the first languages I really got into. It's really good for a even a 12 year old beginner, (I'm 14 atm :P). I've also seen that book in person, it's also very good for a beginner.

[QUOTE=compwhizii;13367544]C# is one of the first languages I really got into. It's really good for a even a 12 year old beginner, (I'm 14 atm :P). I've also seen that book in person, it's also very good for a beginner.[/QUOTE] Exactly what I wanted to know, thanks everyone.

Whenever you have any C# related questions, I've found that [url]http://www.stackoverflow.com[/url] is a great resource.

You want [url=http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514822/]Head First C#[/url].

I already knew some, but one day I picked up 'Programming Microsoft Visual C# 2008: The langauge'. Learned some great stuff there, and it covers everything from the ideas behind C#, how to use a lot of it's stuff, delegates, events, classes, linq, sql, lists, generics, etc. It showed me how to handle unhandled exceptions, so you can have a crash windows come up so the user can send a crashdump or whatever you want. Good stuff.

I've got [url=http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Microsoft-Visual-2008-Guides/dp/047019135X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232914479&sr=8-3]Beiginning C# 2008[/url] by Wrox and the "professional" version as well. I like Wrox books, the only issue I have is sometimes they just introduce a concept without really explaining it in deatail, for that I usually have to stop reading and Google it and I usually end up on MSDN for real details. Whoops. I actually have the O'Reilly book on C#, not the wrox books, I have the Wrox ASP.NET books.

I got Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Step by Step by John Sharp since it was £10 cheaper i i couldn't afford '08 at the time. Syntax hasn't changed, just you get 98 styled windows in the screen caps. Still good book.

I didn't even learn C# from a book. I already knew VB.net and C++, so between those I knew the syntax and .net stuff. Now it's my favorite language. You can probably get by with just internet tutorials for learning syntax, and the msdn for reference on how to use .net stuff.

I went with Step by Step in the end, should be here by Friday, thanks everyone.

I ordered this book: [URL]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Visual-C-2008-How-Program/dp/0137011830/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266011005&sr=8-1[/URL]