Fairly Realistic

I created a list of links for a client at work for learning C# and .NET programming. Here’s the list that I came up with which also includes a few books. I think that the key to learning a new language is relating it to a language you already know. It’s the whole theory of, “once you know one language, you know them all.” That’s worked for me in the past. It’s just that first programming language that is the tough one… unless it’s BASIC, which it was for me. Ahhh, GW-BASIC, where are you?

http://codeproject.com - tons of free projects available for download. This I a great resource for even the most experience programmers. There are pretty much projects detailing how to do anything (especially in windows desktop development)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp - the official C# website at Microsoft. There are a lot of good downloads here for code snippets and sample projects. There are also links to the Microsoft community and support forums. Definitely worth a bookmark.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/downloads/2005 - lots of free source code to get started.

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com - another great site similar to codeproject which catalogs many thousands of lines of free code and tutorials.

http://www.csharp-station.com - great beginner tutorials for C# and ADO.NET

http://www.csharphelp.com - more code snippets than full projects but very helpful for learning quick things and fixing bugs

http://www.csharpfriends.com - another huge resource of code and tutorials

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_programming_language - basic tutorial and a lot of good links at the bottom under References.

http://blogs.msdn.com/csharpfaq - C# FAQ blog by Microsoft

http://csharp-source.net - C# resources (no code)

Pro C# 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform, Third Edition (Hardcover)

Programming Microsoft Visual C# 2005: The Language (Paperback)

Pro ADO.NET 2.0 (Expert’s Voice) (Paperback)

Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Core Reference (Paperback)

Leave comments with any other recommendations for C#, .NET or ADO.NET programming.