Best way to learn C#

[MrMiniBeast]

Hi.

I've decided to start learning c# for software development.

I am looking for a good resource, preferably a book, to help me do this.

I have very limited programming knowledge in a few languages (python, java, HTML, CSS).

However I would like to get as complete as an understanding as I can of c#.

I am willing to spend money on a book or an IDE if necessary.

Thanks for the help

[TechSage]

Edit: I had to make another post because I didn't quote him and he isn't following the topic so he wouldn't have known I responded

[TechSage]

Hi.

I've decided to start learning c# for software development.

I am looking for a good resource, preferably a book, to help me do this.

I have very limited programming knowledge in a few languages (python, java, HTML, CSS).

However I would like to get as complete as an understanding as I can of c#.

I am willing to spend money on a book or an IDE if necessary.

Thanks for the help

Correct me if I'm wrong but HTML isn't a computer language

[technovore]

If I wanted to learn C# I'd start here: http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/csharp/csharp.html
it's C# with   .net and visual studio.

I haven't followed the tutorial myself but I'm planning to, I have done the html, php and basic tutorial from those guys and I loved them.

[MrMiniBeast]

Correct me if I'm wrong but HTML isn't a computer language

I don't know if it is, but you know what I mean.

[Omega15362]

Here a site I am sure almost everybody know, but once you have gotten used to C# some if this could be useful. There are very easy ASP.Net tutorials and such. Have a look.

 

http://www.w3schools.com/

[inastris]

Documentation!!

 

Following tutorials you usually end up copying the examples, not actually learning. You go through it quickly and feel like you can do a lot, but really wont understand the core concepts enough to do something unique.

 

When you self learn just from the documentation, it goes by a lot slower, but in the end you will be a far better programmer.

[LAHWF]

Best way to start would be to not learn it at all.

Learn C++

[crocski]

 

 

Following tutorials you usually end up copying the examples, not actually learning. You go through it quickly and feel like you can do a lot, but really wont understand the core concepts enough to do something unique.

 

When you self learn just from the documentation, it goes by a lot slower, but in the end you will be a far better programmer.

Not entirely true about the copying the examples.

 

In programming there is a lot of that, copying code that have already been created. That's is how you learn actually, by tampering - examining how the code actually works and what each line does.  And it's how you apply it to your project will show how much you really learned.

Tampering also helps you to develop your own style of thinking and solving problems.

 

Also html is good language to get your feet wet, it's easy to learn. Though its not a programming language, its doesn't take much time to understand.

[inastris]

Not entirely true about the copying the examples.

 

In programming there is a lot of that, copying code that have already been created. That's is how you learn actually, by tampering - examining how the code actually works and what each line does.  And it's how you apply it to your project will show how much you really learned.

Tampering also helps you to develop your own style of thinking and solving problems.

 

Also html is good language to get your feet wet, it's easy to learn. Though its not a programming language, its doesn't take much time to understand.

Hmm, I guess everyone is different.