Actually from 3. No: 4!

During this summer, some of my Microsoft Student Partners colleagues were selected for internships in Redmond, at Microsoft’s headquarters. Among them were my 2 good friends, Bogdan and Razvan Hobeanu, who worked in two separate teams, in the Windows division. They had a pretty nice adventure there, along with some other friends like Andrei Csibi and Alex Ghiondea, but you can learn more from them, here [Romanian].

We even got to talk on the phone from time to time, and on one of the occasions I asked them to purchase for some things for me and my father.

Well, today my package arrived, delivered by Andrei, who was in a short trip in Cluj-Napoca. My father was very happy he received his spare parts for an electric appliance and I was for receiving the Logitech G7 gaming mouse. Pretty nice of the Hobeanu brothers.

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One of the most common question people ask me is “Where should I learn C#?” Of course, I get it from people who want to learn C#.

Although now, unlike 3-4 years ago, the web is full of tutorials, free books, webcasts, etc. (maybe too full), it’s becoming harder to find the good and really good resources. By “good resource” I understand a resource that starts with basic stuff and gradually takes the reader/viewer more in-depth, in a sustained way.

I had a list of my own containing good books, but it was getting old, so I decided to ask my MSP colleagues what books they recommend. With help from Vlad Riscutia, Mircea Cimpoi, Razvan & Bogdan Hobeanu, Alexandru Ghiondea and Mihai Tataran, I updated my list to this:

1) Beginner Level

	Deitel - Visual C# 2005 How to Program, 2nd Edition Author: Harvey & Paul Deitel & Associates Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2005 ISBN-10: 0131525239 ISBN-13: 978-0131525238
	Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Step by Step Author: John Sharp Publisher: Microsoft Press, 2005 ISBN-10: 0735621292 ISBN-13: 978-0735621299

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My friend from the Microsoft Student Partners, Andrei Csibi, had a great ideea. Ask other people which are the books that every programmer should read.

My list is:

I. Best Practices

1) Code Complete 2 - Steve McConnel

- excellent book - MUST READ - teaches you patterns & practices available in most programming language

2) The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master - Andrew Hunt, David Thomas

- excellent book - MUST READ - goes very well with CodeComplete2

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