Those are really dated. There are many new things in the language, such as LINQ, that those don't even cover.

Try https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/c-fundamentals-for-absolute-beginners-8295?l=bifAqFYy_204984382

Keep in mind, that many times these beginner courses assume you know nothing about programming.

Also, attend the .Net user group in Boise. http://www.meetup.com/netdug/. Unfortunately, Boise Code Camp was last month.

>It looks like the xamarin-for-absolute-beginners assumes that the user knows c# which I don't. I am looking at this now https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288436(v=vs.71).aspx.
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>Any other suggestions would be helpful.
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>Thanks Craig.