The C# Player's Guide

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• zeroego · Aug 1, 2019 · Recommends

  As someone who was recently a total beginner, I've found two that I have really appreciated: 1. Learn to Program, by Chris Pine https://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/ 2. The C# Player's Guide, by R. B. Whitaker

  on “Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?” ↗
• sylens · Jul 25, 2022 · Recommends

  I have been teaching myself C# for the last two or three months (with the fantastic C# Player's Guide by RB Whitaker) and I have come to really enjoy working with the language. Discovering Properties, which combine fields and their accessor methods and can be auto-implemented and initialized, was the…

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• zeroego · Jan 4, 2023 · Recommends

  "How To Program" - Chris Pine "The C# Player's Guide" - RB Whitaker When I first started these were the most useful books I used. Chris Pine's writing was the most accessible for me being new to programming.

  on “Which books or courses to recommend to beginners for learning coding in 2023?” ↗
• vario · Nov 14, 2023 · Recommends

  Well, my opinion is, he took something elegant and sublime and dressed it up in bullshit; there's nothing wrong with being playful and fun--as I mentioned earlier, Whittaker's "C#, Player's Guide" is the ONLY programming book that presented serious stuff in a fun way without clowning.

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• vsuperpower2020 · Jun 12, 2024 · Critical

  Good idea. Other books I hate for you: Game programming patterns, Crafting Interpreters, the C# player's guide.

  on “Don't Refactor Like Uncle Bob” ↗