C#: the beginning

To start the blog off, I'm going to follow my attempt to use my newly purchased "Head First C#" book to teach myself C#. I already used the Java version of the series to brush up on my Java skills (which often fade to the wayside because I'm a C/C++ programmer as a general rule). I thought the Java book was fantastic. The C# book is much thicker and proves to be very challenging. I've done some programming in C# before (created a GUI for a build system; accessed a small DB to get the data), but it's been a while and I'm hoping that this effort will re-engage me with the language starting at a more fundamental level (how do I set it up from scratch for example?) and then see what the "basic advanced" features of the language offers. Wish me luck. I hope to get it done before the end of summer.