C# Essentials (Prentice Hall Ptr Microsoft Technologies Series) - Softcover

The fastest way to get up to speed with the next "need-to-know" programming language!

• Get up-to-speed on C# quickly and skillfully
• Leverage your existing C or C++ skills
• Covers key language features: control statements, loops, key words, arrays, pointers, and more

C# is a radical departure from C and C++, even though many similar elements remain. In C# Essentials, the creators of one of the world's first C# college courses teach C# through step-by-step code examples that draw on their unique insight into what working developers need to know. Pappas and Murray begin by examining the key features of the C# language—and comparing C# to C and C++. Next, they outline practical programming strategies for making the most of C#; then introduce each key C# concept through complete, step-by-step code examples.

• Learn how C# draws on the best of C and C++
• Leverage the full power of Windows using the easy C# graphical interface
• Get primed on C#'s key language features: control statements, loops, key words, arrays, pointers, and more
• Understand key concepts through complete working code examples that run in Visual Studio .NET's console mode

If you've worked with C or C++, C# Essentials will help you leverage the skills you've already developed— and if you haven't, it'll teach you C# from scratch. Either way, you'll be writing real .NET applications faster than you ever expected.

CHRIS H. PAPPAS is the chair of the Computer Studies Department and WILLIAM H. MURRAY is the chair of the Electrical Engineering Technology Department at the B.C.C. campus of SUNY Binghamton. They have co-authored over 50 books on programming, covering topics ranging from assembly language to Visual Basic, C, and C++ to HTML and JavaScript. Their books have been translated into more than 25 languages.