>>>>Congrats for what? I am very disappointed right now because I had to delay the class again, and it doesn't start again until January. My internet connection kept crashing this afternoon and I quickly fell far behind. Without knowing how long the connectivity issues might continue, I made the difficult decision to bail out for now and try again in January. I am trying to keep my chin up, since this was not something I could control, but it's tough.
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>>>>One thing I know for sure is I am not going to use this as an excuse to drink. That would only make things worse.
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>>>Oh, I see. I didn't know if didn't work out yet. What is the company, BTW? SetFocus? How is your own training (without external help) goes on so far?
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>>>BTW, I like Wrox book on C# (very thick).
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>>Yes, SetFocus. I have learned quite a bit of C# on my own. There are other parts of the course I know little about, such as ASP.NET and ADO.NET. It is a .NET class, not just a C# class. They have two versions of the class, one using C# and the other using Visual FoxPro. Kidding! -- the other is VB.NET, of course.
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>>I have several books but not the Wrox one. The one I have spent the most time with is Troelsen's, which seems to be the C# standard text.
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>Check out the Murach books on both C# and Asp .NET. For my money the best designed programming training stuff I've seen.

I have both of them. They are certainly more accessible than the Troelsen book but also more basic IMO. I feel like if I ever understand everything in Troelsen, I will REALLY know C#.

Another one I like is "Effective C#" by Bill Wagner. As it says on the cover, it contains "50 specific ways to improve your C#." For example, #11, "Prefer foreach loops," and #19, "Prefer defining and implementing interfaces to inheritance." It goes beyond describing the rules and makes recommendations.