(Part 2) Best microsoft net books according to redditors
We found 110 Reddit comments discussing the best microsoft net books. We ranked the 33 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
I've shot up several of my old text books. Pistols rounds didn't make it through. 40SW, 45ACP, 9mm, .380, .22WMR, etc. They were all stopped before page 450 of a paperback book. This one to be exact.
Seriously, paper is dense and good at stopping rounds.
Also solid copper rounds don't deform like that. This was just a copper jacketed lead bullet, probably something cheap like Winchester White Box.
It's going to depend on what you're putting in the list, but creating a new list each time is only going to create one additional object for the garbage collector to collect; the list object itself.
If the list is full of objects, each of those will need to be collected when they are no longer referenced by the list. This would happen in both the case where you clear the list (which will cause all the objects to be collected on the next run) or where you create a new new list (the objects will be collected when the list is collected).
The only way I see having the list be static making a big difference is if the list is hanging around long enough to be picked up in a gen 1 or gen 2 collection, but the records are only ever needed long enough to be picked up in a gen 0 collection.
In that case, reassigning the list would cause a gen 1 or 2 collection, which is more expensive than a gen 0 collection and could be avoided by clearing the list so the records are picked up in the gen 0.
If you're interested in optimizing .NET that much, I recommend Writing High-Performance .NET Code Second Ed.
It also helps to actually have an understanding (even superficially) of how the GC of the target platform works.
For me, "Writing High Performance .NET Code" was a huge eye-opener.
I complete agree with negative_epsilon. There is absolutely nothing wrong with C# and the .NET framework. People here on reddit like to hate on .NET but it is honestly a powerful framework. Visual Studio is the best IDE period, even people that hate .NET often admin that Visual Studio is an amazing development experience. For my personally, C# is my go to language for any new projects.
To give a little perspective, lots of companies worldwide choose .NET and many new startups (at least in my area) are on .NET and Microsoft Stack. Even StackOverlow is an example of really successful site built using C# and .NET.
Now about education I agree with the path already outlined, start with C# fundamentals, them web fundamentals, then asp.net mvc.
I thought offer some resources for learning:
PluralSight is a great training site. It's a paid site, but they do have a free trial and you might be able to get a free membership if you're a student.
Check out their library but I would recommend the following courses for you:
If you want to buy a book Professional MVC4 is a great book. The past versions were not as great, but this one really shines and will explain the ASP.NET MVC Framework.
Another great resource is the Official ASP.NET Website. There are loads of free tutorials and videos including:
Sorry for the barrage of links and please know that I am in No way affiliated with pluralsight. I don't work for them, they don't even know I exist. I pay for my own subscription and it is completely worth it. They have all kinds of material from introductory to more advanced topics.
2 books I couldn't live without Professional C# (Wrox) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Professional-2008-Wrox-Guides/dp/0470191376/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1302888640&sr=8-8
for the basics and C# in Depth http://www.amazon.co.uk/C-Depth-Jon-Skeet/dp/1935182471/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1302888686&sr=1-1for the nitty gritty useful stuff
For the most part, the Microsoft Virtual Academy videos cover the same stuff as the first few chapters of Galloway's book.
I just finished Galloway's book, and I wish that I had gotten Freeman's book instead (linked in one of /u/sarcasticbaldguy 's comments).
If you decide to look into WebForms as well, I thought Beginning ASP.NET 4.5.1 by Spaanjaars was pretty good. (link: http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-ASP-NET-4-5-1-Wrox-Programmer/dp/111884677X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1415893204&sr=8-1&keywords=asp.net)
I own that book and sometimes I feel it's a little hard to follow along.
For people who do like his book though, he is working on a C# 7 and .Net Core 2.0 book now.
OK, my fault, I missed your point regarding styling etc.
Guess it depends what level you are at? I learned from Here. I then went on to try and recreate things I had seen elsewhere myself. I was really suprised when I realised how much you could do with just CSS to be honest.
If you want to learn it, I highly recommend this book. It was a good way for me to start off.
The also have a whole book.
Practical Guidelines and Best Practices for Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C# Developers (Developer Reference)
Started out in VB6 making silly little things about 7 or 8 years ago, never achieved much as I was on an old Windows 98 box with no internet access and I was too young to understand any complex programming I think the best thing I did was a Notepad clone that let you do a Caesar cipher on the document. Moved on to C# after someone I know got me this book. Stayed with it for a while, got a few more books on the subject from the same person and started to have a look at a few others, namely Java and Python.
Recently I've moved on to C which is much easier to work with on linux thanks to GCC. I've done a few things on github, namely this, which is a miner for someone's bitcoin clone written in C89. Fun stuff, learning about pointers. I had a look at some 6502 assembly language too, which is like the barebones instructions for the 6502 processor which the Commodore 64 (and the Atari 2600 I think) used. A bit too low-level for me so I got bored.
I'd say C++ Programming: from Problem Analysis to Design
Not a good read if you're interested in something short, but it is very thorough if you're coming in with 0 background.
Just curious, what about these two:
Has anyone had experience with these two books, particularly in comparison against the Expert F# 4.0 book mentioned in the article?