I've watched around 30 tutorials of this guy from TheNewBoston, but I'm afraid I don't like it. I decided to code small programs on my own, and I realized I forgot more than half the shit he said. I find his tutorials rather boring, I mean the tone of his voice is too plain for me, and it seems like he hates making the tutorials. A long time ago I decided to try out C++, but I sort of just stopped because I got super busy. I watched tutorials from someone called outofmylaboratory, and he was nothing less but amazing. You could tell he really enjoyed making tutorials, and because of that, I always wanted to watch more. I'm afraid he doesn't make any C# tutorials though, so could any of you guys recommend a YouTube channel which is enjoyable and with a rather large amount of tutorials?
I found the C# Head First book more useful than video tutorials, partly because you often can see the code that well in videos and the fact that videos have a lot of useless parts they didn't edit out.
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EDIT: I realize that wasn't what you were looking for. Are you touching up on c# or learning it?
I'm learning it :)
Youtube videos aren't always great for learning to code, they will tell you what to type to make an application, but won't give you the theory most of the time. your best bet is to stick your favourite music on and google "C# Tutorials". Look through the sites and try to follow one of them. Sample code snippets can also be useful once you learn the basics. As a beginner you should be able to understand variables (declaring and using them), operators (including boolean operators), basic flow (if, else, while, and for loops) and basic object-orientated programming basics (not the same language, but in java this would include implementation and extension).
Okay, I just got myself the book DoctorSalt talked about, you're so much against YouTube videos. I suppose you're right, I mean, I've watched quite a few, and I've still had trouble converting string to integers and that kind of stuff. Thanks for all of the great help guys :) Perl even invited me as a friend on Steam, in case I needed any help :D
Awesome! I really enjoyed the way that book teaches. You can't really use it as a reference book (and that's fine), but it pays very good attention to good teaching methods.
One piece of advice, once you get somewhat far into the book, do try to come up with answers before looking at the solution. Sometimes it's hard to know what you don't know.
So far I've only read a few pages, but this seems like it's exactly what I want, I mean he even involves games, which is exactly what I want. And I can even listen to music while reading it! Thanks a ton, you have all helped a great deal! :D
Well, its always good to make a few basic applications as you go along in the book, the basics i like to start off with is a VAT calculator, A program that finds the area of a circle (you will need to recall some algebra though, pi * r^2 is the radius - area formula). As you get better begin making things which are both harder and use the new skills you have learnt. Also, im going to assume your new to the whole coding experience, so i would have advised against C++ as a first language. A lot of people will find it to be too steep of a learning curve.
[QUOTE=HTMLfreak;37643791]Well, its always good to make a few basic applications as you go along in the book, the basics i like to start off with is a VAT calculator, A program that finds the area of a circle (you will need to recall some algebra though, pi * r^2 is the radius - area formula). As you get better begin making things which are both harder and use the new skills you have learnt. Also, im going to assume your new to the whole coding experience, so i would have advised against C++ as a first language. A lot of people will find it to be too steep of a learning curve.[/QUOTE]
Yes, I was completely new to coding when I started learning C++. I still don't know the difference, or why it sucks, but I love C#. Not to mention, I've read around 50 pages of this book, and I've already created and finished a project regarding a sort-of calender. I can tell I'm also going to create games and such, so I should be good as long as I stick to this book :) It's amazing, I'm usually not much of a book reader, but I can't take my eyes of this ^^
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My god. When I learned using YouTube I was taught how to create classes, using switch statements and what not, but not once did he care to explain what the difference was between Namespace, Methods and Statements. I just learned, and my god, would it have saved me a lot of time. Thank you for showing me this book, I really appreciate it :)
Great C# tutorial:
[video]http://youtube.com/watch?v=XHosLhPEN3k[/video]
I really liked this guy's tutorial, the crash course really taught me stuff that I forgot, and I also learned stuff that I didn't know before.
[url]http://rbwhitaker.wikidot.com/start[/url]
[QUOTE=Xion12;37743571]I really liked this guy's tutorial, the crash course really taught me stuff that I forgot, and I also learned stuff that I didn't know before.
[url]http://rbwhitaker.wikidot.com/start[/url][/QUOTE]
I second this. However, while I think it is a very very good over view of a lot of c#, it isn't very good for teaching you how to program.
I appreciate everything guys, but I think I'll just stick to this book. It's teaching my everything I need to know, without being incredibly boring, and in the future I'll even get into game design, which is what I want to program when I get good enough.
So I appreciate that you're still trying to help me, I really do, but I'll just hold on to this book ^^ It lasts roughly 750 pages, so I assume I'm going to learn what I have to learn. :)
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