I've recently signed on to do the updated version of
A Programmer's Introduction to C# for Apress. The first two editions of this book were written by
Eric Gunnerson, who was the C# PM, but
announced in September has was moving to another team in Microsoft.
Gary emailed me to see if I was keen to do an updated version of the book, and being a big fans of Eric and the first two versions of the book, I happily agreed.
I'm getting together a revised TOC at the moment. The stuff in black is the TOC of the second edition of the book, and the stuff in red is what I plan to add. Any comments or feedback would be welcome.
Chapter 1 Object-Oriented Basics
Chapter 2 The .NET Runtime Environment
Chapter 3 C# QuickStart and Developing in C#
Chapter 4 Exception Handling
Chapter 5 Classes 101
Chapter 6 Base Classes and Inheritance
Chapter 7 Member Accessibility and Overloading
Chapter 8 Other Class Details
(including static classes)
Chapter 9 Structs (Value Types)
Chapter 10 Interfaces
Chapter 11 Versioning
and Aliases
Chapter 12 Statements and Flow of Execution
Chapter 13 Variable Scoping and Definite Assignment
Chapter 14 Operators and Expressions
Chapter 15 Conversions
Chapter 16 Arrays
Chapter x Generics
Chapter 17 Strings
Chapter 18 Properties
(including property accessors)
Chapter 19 Indexers, Enumerators
and Iterators
Chapter 20 Enumerations
Chapter 21 Attributes
Chapter 22 Delegates
and Anonymous Methods
Chapter 23 Events
Chapter 24 User-Defined Conversions
Chapter 25 Operator Overloading
Chapter x Nullable Types
Chapter 26 Other Language Details
(including partial classes and inline warning control)
Chapter 27 Making Friends with the .NET Frameworks
Chapter 28 System.Array and the Collection Classes
(including System.Collections.Generics)
Chapter 29 Threading and Asynchronous Operations
Chapter 30 Execution-Time Code Generation
Chapter 31 Interop
(including fixed size buffers)
Chapter 32 .NET Frameworks Overview
Chapter 33 Windows Forms
Chapter 34 DiskDiff: More Sophistication
Chapter 35 DiskDiff: Making It Useful
Chapter 36 Deeper into C#
Chapter 37 Defensive Programming
Chapter 38 The Command Line Compiler
Chapter 39 C# Compared to Other Languages
Chapter 40 C# Resources and Futures
Posted
Oct 16 2004, 09:28 PM
by
nick