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Pros

There's plenty of explanation in plain english on everything a beginner should know. The author has a way of speaking to you in a casual, conversational way. It is thorough but concise.

All of the information is very well sectioned out into chapters, making the book easily digestible. Some books deal with that with bump-outs and other formatting gimmicks.

Scratch is a visual based language and platform designed to demonstrate coding to people ages 6-adult. Rb whitaker explains the basic tenants of programming concisely. Having coded in procedural languages, this fundamental is critical in moving to an ...  Read More

The platform is. Net, but covers the c# language nicely. Net details. This includes programming a game with monogame, etc. Net framework.



Cons

The 'players' guide only has two games described in it. The last one, the game of life, has nearly zero documentation. I wish the author's need to discourage hadn't cost me money.

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Quality


I was blown away by the quality of this book; i learned more in a single weekend with c# player's guide than i did in several s...  Read More


Educational game changer for students with the class.


I thoroughly enjoyed reading it to catch up with the latest in c#.


With the theme i was hoping it would be written in an engaging way and i was not disappointed.

Price


Is not for the advanced nor semi-advance unless one wishes a review.

Packaging/appearance


Whether you know a little about c# or not this book will teach you or fill in the gaps.

Competitiveness


I’m a newb at c# and just started programming 1 a few weeks ago.


It is written in a layman's way which is something that i found very appealing since taking on this material seemed a bit daunt...  Read More

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  • This product had a total of 401 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 4 2022.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The book didnt treat the net aspect of c


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I took off one star because the book doesnt cover testing


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Usually not much of a reader but this book had me engaged the whole time didn’t want to put it down


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The author and community go out of their way to help you if they can


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It makes learning like a game rather than a chore


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I was already pretty familiar with c and just wanted a refresher read so i didnt work through all of them


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    However despite the name of this book it is a general c programming book and is not specifically geared towards game programming


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The material in this book will be important for using c in any of its applications including programming windows applications website server side programming with mvcasp

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