Resources for C#

[Crowes]

Hey, I recently learned VB for work (majority of their systems are written in it), but I would like to learn C# as a way of moving away from any new projects being written in an unsupported language*.

 

Are they any reasonable resources for learning this? I don't want a book that goes on about new stuff, I want one that goes on about the basics, then what can be done. From there I can take off myself.

[Akolyte]

Microsoft provides a c# essentials course on Edx which teaches you the fundamentals of the language.  That is a good course since it presumes you already have some experience with object oriented languages.  Microsoft has good documentation and examples and MVA (Microsoft Virtual Academy) is a good way to learn c# too.  

 

My advice is to do the course (unfortunately I can't link it because I'm on my laptop right now) but you can do a simple search on Edx and I'm sure you'll find it.  And then I would read a book to get more detail.  In my opinion it's best to take c# as a piece of a Microsoft ecosystem, and so learning ASP.net, SQLServer, Azure, XAML are pretty good to do down the line.  Microsoft offers a Dev Essentials bundle that comes with a 3 month subscription to Plurasight, so I recommend taking advantage of that, and the free Azure credit so you can host web applications, databases and such.  

 

Good luck learning c#! 

[madknight3]

Check out Pluralsight. They have a large number of C# and .NET courses (along with many other topics) as well as a C# path to follow if you want. They also have a C# for VB Developers course which you might enjoy as an introduction to C#.

 

You can get 3 free months to Pluralsight with the free Visual Studio Dev Essentials program.

[AlTech]

On ‎12‎/‎22‎/‎2016 at 9:27 PM, Erik Sieghart said:

I always liked Essential C# (it's on version 6 now).

It covers not only the language and basic concepts, but also suggests good coding practices and styling.

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MS's documentation for C# is second to none. You'll find msdn has code examples on pretty much anything you'd want to reference, as well.

 

On ‎12‎/‎22‎/‎2016 at 4:16 PM, Crowes said:

Hey, I recently learned VB for work (majority of their systems are written in it), but I would like to learn C# as a way of moving away from any new projects being written in an unsupported language*.

 

Are they any reasonable resources for learning this? I don't want a book that goes on about new stuff, I want one that goes on about the basics, then what can be done. From there I can take off myself.

I can't vouch for the Essentials listed above.

 

But damn, C#  MSDN documentation has saved me so many times!