C#: the end

Well, that didn't work out so well. I targeted myself to complete the C# book by the end of summer, but got distracted with a million other things. One of those things was an internal project at my work which I did in C#. Instead of reading the book, I picked the brain of my C#-smart co-workers to get the information I needed. It was quite a learning experience, but in the end I simply didn't feel compelled to finish the book off.

Judgment of the book is in limbo. I still feel that it has good potential, especially for beginning programmers. I may return to it later, especially if I get involved in database access in C#. We'll see what the future holds.

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.