Book Review – C# in Depth – What You Need to Master C# 2 and 3

Book Review – C# in Depth – What You Need to Master C# 2 and 3

In the last weeks 
I read the book
“C# in Depth –
What You Need
to Master C# 2
and 3” that was
written by
Jon Skeet.
You might ask
yourself why I
bothered reading
a book about
C# 2 and 3.
The answer is
very simple. 
Knowing some
material isn’t
enough and
reading leads to wide and
deeper knowledge. One of the first things that I recommend people
who ask me how can I learn and gain programming knowledge
is reading good technical books. That leads me right back to the book.
C# in Depth is a great book to read. I really enjoyed the writer’s
writing and the book itself. Sometimes when I read technical books
I get bored and this book succeeded to fascinate me so I kept on
reading.

What You are Going to Gain from The Book?

A lot. The book is a deep dive into the past (C# 2) and to the present
(C# 3). It includes all the language enhancements and features and
shows how they developed during time. I really liked the discussion
about delegates which is well defined in the book.

What is Included in The Book?

The book includes the following parts:

• Preparing for the journey – this chapter covers all the overview
  about C# and it develop from C# 1.
• Solving the issues of C# 1 -  this part include all the new (currently
  they are now old) features of C# 2 including Generics, Nullable types,
  delegates (which were introduced in C# 1 but were very improved in
  C# 2), iterators using yield and more.
• C# 3 – revolutionizing how we code – this part discuss the new
  features of C# 3 including initializers, anonymous types, lambda
  expressions and expression trees, extension methods, LINQ and more.

Summary

"C# in Depth” is a very recommended book.
I give it 5 stars out of five.
If you look for a very interesting book about C# evolution and more this
is your book.