Ready, Steady, Go!

Abstract

This book is about the C# programming language and helping you become a proficient C# programmer—even if you’ve never programmed before or you’ve only worked with procedural languages like Visual Basic. (C# is called an object-oriented language, which differs in approach from procedural languages like Visual Basic, Pascal, COBOL, and a lot of others that have been just about left for dead.) Object-oriented languages are not only the wave of the future, they’re the wave of today. You can’t program for the Web if you don’t know how to use an objectoriented language like Java, C++, or C#. And if you want to use the .NET platform to program web sites and web data exchanges (an extremely popular approach), then C# is the language you want to learn.