Impractical how? It seems like a good, thorough overview of the C# language to me. How practical can you get before you understand the basics?

>My boss bought copies of Troelsen for each dev on the team. Seems like a great college text. Very theoretical. Not much practical.
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>>FWIW my older daughter is a college freshman and when I took her to buy books I noticed the C# text in the store was Troelsen.