The C# Player's Guide

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1. varioNov 2023
   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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2. zeroegoJan 2023
   "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.

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3. sylensJul 2022
   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 first moment I realized it might make my life a whole lot easier.

   I'm not entirely sold on its use for desktop GUI development yet (will watch MAUI closely) but I am eager to jump into Blazor and see if I can start to remove JavaScript from my stack.

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4. zeroegoAug 2019
   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

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5. vsuperpower2020Jun 2024
   Good idea. Other books I hate for you: Game programming patterns, Crafting Interpreters, the C# player's guide.
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