Top C# books recommended by experts

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Fundamentals of C#

Understanding the concepts of C# starts with understanding the fundamentals. On your way to mastery, it's crucial for you to understand how certain concepts were derived, and why things work like they do. Starting with these resources is the best way to do so.

Murach's C#

It's a self-paced book that shows you how to use Visual Studio, C#, and the . NET classes to develop Windows Forms applications… whether you're new to programming or not. It's an object-oriented book that shows you how to use business classes, inheritance, and interfaces the way they're used in the real world.

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C# in Depth: Fourth Edition

C# is the foundation of .NET development. New features added in C# 6 and 7 make it easier to take on big data applications, cloud-centric web development, and cross-platform software using .NET Core. Packed with deep insight from C# guru Jon Skeet, this book takes you deep into concepts and features other C# books ignore. C# in Depth, Fourth Edition is an authoritative and engaging guide that …

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C# Programming in Easy Steps: Modern Coding with C# 10 and . NET 6. Updated for Visual Studio 2022

C# Programming in easy steps, 3rd edition is updated for Visual Studio 2022, and teaches you how to code applications and demonstrates every aspect of the C# language you will need to produce professional programming results. Modern coding with C# 10 and .NET 6. Updated for Visual Studio 2022. The book's examples provide clear syntax-highlighted code showing C# language basics including variab…

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C# 6.0 Cookbook: Solutions for C# Developers

Completely updated for C# 6.0, the new edition of this bestseller offers more than 150 code recipes to common and not-so-common problems that C# programmers face every day. More than a third of the recipes have been rewritten to take advantage of new C# 6.0 features. If you prefer solutions to general C# language instruction and quick answers to theory, this is your book. C# 6.0 Cookbook offer…

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Professional C# and .NET

Experienced programmers making the transition to C# will benefit from the author's in-depth explorations to create Web- and Windows applications using ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and WinUI using modern application patterns and new features offered by .

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Pro C# 10 with .NET 6: Foundational Principles and Practices in Programming

This book goes beyond “do this, to achieve this” to drill down into the core stuff that makes a good developer, great. This expanded 11th edition delivers loads of new content on Entity Framework, Razor Pages, Web APIs and more. You will find the latest C# 10 and .

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Additional C# Reading

These books are not required for you to learn C#, but they are highly recommended for you to deepen your knowledge.

Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#

With the award-winning book Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices, Robert C. Martin helped bring Agile principles to tens of thousands of Java and C++ programmers. Now .NET programmers have a definitive guide to agile methods with this completely updated volume from Robert C. Martin and Micah Martin, Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#. This book presents …

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Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 2019 - Fourth Edition

By the end of the book, you'll be familiar with intermediate C# topics like generics, delegates, and events, setting you up to take on projects of your own. What You Will Learn: Understand programming fundamentals with practice examples in C# Explore the interface and features of Unity 2019.

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The C# Player's Guide (5th Edition)

The book in your hands is a different kind of programming book. Like an entertaining video game, programming is an often challenging but always rewarding experience. This book shakes off the dusty, dull, dryness of the typical programming book, replacing it with something more exciting and flavorful: a bit of humor, a casual tone, and examples involving dragons and asteroids instead of bank ac…

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The C Programming Language

The authors present the complete guide to ANSI standard C language programming. Written by the developers of C, this new version helps readers keep up with the finalized ANSI standard for C while showing how to take advantage of C's rich set of operators, economy of expression, improved control flow, and data structures. The 2/E has been completely rewritten with additional examples and proble…

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Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns

Unit Testing Principles, Patterns and Practices teaches you to design and write tests that target key areas of your code including the domain model. In this clearly written guide, you learn to develop professional-quality tests and test suites and integrate testing throughout the application life cycle.

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Murach's ASP. NET Core MVC

If you know the basics of C#, you’re ready to learn how to create web applications using Microsoft’s powerful technology, ASP.NET Core MVC (Model-View-Controller). And there’s no more practical way to do it than with this book.By the end of section 1…just 5 chapters…you’ll be developing real-world web apps that follow the MVC pattern, using C# code for the model and controller classes…HTML, CS…

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