The C# Player's Guide (5th Edition) Paperback – January 14, 2022

Excelente libro, para los que estan empesando en la programacion y tambien para quellos que saben programar pero quieren refrescar sus conceptos basicos

Over the years I have bought a lot of different programming books in an attempt to quickly pick up a language that I needed to know for work or for a personal project. Many times, I will get about 40-60% through these books and put them down, never to pick them back up. Sometimes I learned enough to get going from just that amount of reading; other times I have to seek out additional resources to supplement the book's lessons.The C# Player's Guide is the first programming book I completed cover to cover. The content is organized into a series of "Levels" in the form of something akin to a role playing game; each level has one or more challenges and knowledge checks for you to test what you learned in that level. Completing these awards you experience points (XP) that you can track on a page in the front of the book to gamify your progress. This feature by itself helps encourage you to stick with the content.However, even if that gamification was missing, the content here is so good that I felt compelled to keep going, even when the rest of life and work caused interruptions and disruptions to my schedule. The challenges will measure your comprehension as it continues to layer new concepts over previously introduced ones, but in a way that is never frustrating. Instead, for each challenge you'll feel like you have an idea of how to get started and will just need a bit of tinkering around to get the result you need. From this tinkering comes the real lessons and insights that make the language stick.The author also has an active presence in the Discord server that accompanies this book, offering reviews of your code as you work on the challenges and answering any questions you have with detailed, thoughtful responses. If you are looking to learn C# from scratch (or if you are looking to break into object-oriented programming and thinking about using this as your first resource), you would be hard pressed to find a better book than this.

Love it, great to learn and easy to follow

The book is clear, logical, focused, and very easy to follow. This is the first time I've been able to write some script without having to follow a youtube tutorial that does nothing to explain any of the logic used to come to a solution. It presents some challenges, and I'm able to use everything I've learned within a chapter (plus some critical thinking) to achieve the goal without help or too much headache. Some of the challenges are a little cheeky and will ask you to incorporate elements that are related to what you just learned but wasn't explicitly mentioned. Some might not like that, but it seriously wasn't too hard to just take an extra step to look into some documentation and figure it out.

Was advertised as new but when received a few pages were damaged in the inside,still readable so I kept it.

I've been using the Unity game engine and C# for a few years now. I don't have a CS degree of any kind and I've really started to feel like I had some holes in my knowledge. I've used use an interface, I kinda knew what a garbage collector was, and I've even used different types of delegates and generics in different ways. Hell, I even have my first Steam game out that I released last year with a couple of thousand copies sold. But I just felt like I didn't quite grasp some of the concepts.I didn't go through all of the challenges, I skipped a couple of chapters that I felt like I already had a decent understanding of. But I binged about 80% of the book in less than a week. I've been reading and studying the book for about 4-5 every day all week, and I've felt a huge level up in my understanding with dozens of different light-bulb "ohhhhh that's how it works moments".Huge thank you RB. Can't recommend this book enough for anyone brand-spanking new up to someone trying to further their knowledge to a more intermediate/advanced level.

I have had previous experience with other programming languages, but I am pretty new to C#. The book is great at walking you through the basics from the syntax to building classes. This book never overwhelms you with information, it takes you slowly through each topic and even gives you cool projects to reinforce the topics that were covered, I would recommend this book to anyone new to programming, I feel like it helps get you started without making you feel like you are underwater with knowledge.

I've tried other programming books before. I'll make it a good chunk of the way through and give up. With this book, it's been different. The challenges are difficult, but not to the point of frustration. I also really enjoy the story element of the challenges. It helped give me the perspective that I am creating something to solve a problem rather than just doing an exercise.The biggest break through happened on The Defense of Consolas exercise from Level 8. I was to the point where I was about to give up. I took a break, then went back and got through each objective step by step. For me it was the most satisfying program of the book, even though it is one of the earlier ones. This gave me the confidence to say to myself that I am capable of doing this and will get through the book.This book inspired me to sign up for a software engineering program. I've been a firefighter for over 15 years. I'm thankful that RB Whitaker created a book good enough to help me step out of my comfort zone and shoot for something. Thank you sir!