Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 960 pages
- Published by: Course Technology PTR
- Edition: 1st Edition March 2, 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1931841306
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1931841306
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.4 x 1.9 inches
- Weighs: 3.4 pounds
Product Description
Use C# to accomplish real-world, professional tasks. C# Professional Projects is your key to unlocking the power of C#. Each project focuses on a specific concept and is based on a real-world situation. Enhance your skills as you work through six projects including creating a customer maintenance system, an employee record system, a creative learning windows application, an airline reservation portal, a Web portal for a bookstore, and a mobile application project. When you are finished, you will have the skills necessary to modify projects to fit your professional needs.
Book Info
Your guide to unlocking the power of C#. Enhance your skills as you work through six projects including creating a customer maintenance system, an employee record system, a creative learning windows application, a Web portal for a bookstore, and a mobile application project. Softcover. CD-ROM included.
Reader ReviewsI bought this book at a used book store in Mountain View, CA, with only the title and a brief scan of the material (no time, low price.) What publishers should take from this book is the screaming need for what the title promises: professional level examples of whatever computing language is at issue. I developed software for real-time applications from 1972 to about 1996, with a few truly embedded projects. During all those years I NEVER saw one decent book on developing real time ro embedded software... it sounds funny now, but bluntly, what we were doing reflected much more the medieval concepts of apprenticeships than cogent training... and I had my EE with physics/math/CS (and then an MBA in MIS, largely because I was irritated with deliberately ignorant and wasteful management structures - why am I thinking George W. Bush right now?) There are some books out there whose authors are clearly experienced in this arena - in specific languages or compilers, like Visual C# - but they seem to hold back, perhaps aiming for that least common denomiator, or, perhaps, just perhaps, they still harbor that old 60s software 'magic' that doesn't want to give away the secrets of the sourceror. For a long time I'd buy or at least pick up book on graphics... and these would all start with the same first few chapters on ray tracing, etc... and then they'd go completely to hell. No code. No examples. Or, these books would have references to graphics software tools that the novice could use. What the reviews of this book show are that a market exists for the material suggested by the title, but that the books just aren't there yet. Now, I can tell you as of my writing, that C# is really picking up steam in Silicon Valley. Companies are adopting it in a rapid way that I would have not expected, but then, until recently, I didn't realize that Visual C# had many of the features of Visual Basic... which is one reason why this book is OK, even though ancient (2002) and deficient. The ability to develop a GUI in minutes and write the code behind the controls/screens is enormously advantageous. I had seen that in VB in 1992, and then in LabWindows/DOS and /CVI in 1994. My advice, if you've got a few dollars to spare, buy this book anyway. it will at least give you ideas for professional projects and perhaps you can take the sense of C# and run with it. It could be worse: this could be 1973 and there are no books worth reading at all!
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