We wrote Learning C# 3.0 for people with no programming experience at all. If you’re a student just starting to learn to program, this book is for you. If you have some experience with web design or system administration, and you want to learn about programming, this book is for you. If you’re learning on your own because you want to know what this programming thing is all about, good for you! We’ll help you get there.
If you already know another programming language, but you haven’t run into object-oriented concepts yet, the material in Chapters Chapter 1 through Chapter 5 will probably be familiar to you in concept, even if you don’t recognize the syntax. We recommend that you still read the first five chapters, but Chapter 6 is where it’ll get really interesting for you. If you’re familiar with C++, you’ll find a lot of the syntax in this book familiar, but there’s a lot that’s new as well (you can say goodbye to pointers, for one thing), so we suggest that you at least skim the early chapters. If have some experience with another language such as Visual Basic, Java, or Ruby, there’s a lot here that you’ll be familiar with, but with enough syntax differences to trip you up if you’re not careful.
If you’re proficient in another object-oriented language and you’re looking to pick up the changes as you transition to C#, we suggest you look into this book’s companion volume, Programming C# 3.0, by Jesse Liberty and Donald Xie. That book assumes that you have some programming experience already and ramps up to the complex stuff more quickly.
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