Thread: I want to learn C# but!!

Hi everyone,

I got a very nice Java book which is written by an Academic (who knows how to teach students the concept of OOP). However, I don't want to learn Java! MY goal is to learn C#.

At the same time I didn't find a clear book about C# for beginners. Most of them touch the concepts very quickly and don't illustrate the meaning in a good way so you feel lost as a beginner when you try to read on of those.

What is your recommendation as experts? Should I pick the concepts of OOP by using the good Java book and then from that go to C#? Or should I only try to learn C# from here and from there until I can understand the concepts?

Thanks!

Hi Junky

Are you a Java programmer? if you are what do you like about it? and how do you compare it to C#?

im ok with java and learning more everyday but im also doing some c# at the same time and really there isnt a lot of difference between the 2...knowing java is making it sooooo much easier to learn c#

Example: to display text in the console
Java: System.out.println("hi");
C#: System.Console.WriteLine("hi");

Second what the others have said. I find that programming is really just a method of thought and problem solving. If you can do this in one language, you can do it in most any other language. The only difference is that you have to learn new syntax. That is, different languages can do the same thing (such as working with arrays) but they do it in different ways. But those differences are the kind of thing you can look up pretty easily.

Of course, sometimes you get into something like PHP, which I found has some big differences in program flow that took me a little time to figure out. Maintaining state is hard to wrap my mind around. But my practice in C++ and Java made it mostly a breeze.

If I may take a guess; you have heard your friends (or people to whom you can entrust one or more facets of knowledge) say that C is the superior language or used more or is just stronger. To address this, just use the logic of any decision. Put simply, what fits your needs best, and what is more realistic for your future decisions/timeline.

So what is it you want to do with programming?

hey guys if James Gosling made C++ it would have been ++C ..