Thanks to everyone who responded, I got a lot of great suggestions. I ended up grabbing "Learning C#" from O'Reilly. It's starting me off with the basics and it's not overly long so I can decide what direction I want to go once I'm done with it. Thanks a bunch.
Tom On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 18:39 -0400, Tom McLaughlin wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a good beginner C# book. Preferably one that does not > assume a certain amount of familiarity with C++, Java, or OOP in > general. I picked up "Mono: A Developers Notebook" from O'Reilly > figuring that some of the C++ I saw in school would come back to me. > What I saw in school was nearly five years ago and it's definitely not > coming back. > > I really need a book that will not only go over the syntax and structure > of the language but the underlying fundementals of the language. (Like > not just how to create a vector but what each part of the declaraion > means and how it all works.) Right now I maintain the FreeBSD port for > Muine and I am looking at creating ports of other applications. I would > like to have enough familiarity with the language to fix bugs, > especially FreeBSD specific bugs in programs. > > If someone could recommend a book they found to give a good > comprehensive understanding of the language to a beginner that would be > great. Thanks. > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list