Author hallmarks and up-to-date content help students grasp important concepts before applying them

Written in a clear, friendly, and easy-to-understand manner, the author uses a step-by-step approach to teach Visual C# with each chapter covering a major set of topics and building knowledge as students progress through the book.
New and Updated - The edition has been completely updated, revised, and tested for Visual Studio 2017.
A GUI-based approach keeps students motivated to learn programming as they will learn to create GUI-based, event-driven, Visual C# applications.
This book introduces objects very early and shows the student how to create objects from classes that are provided by the .NET Framework.
Updated - Chapter 7 Arrays and Lists now covers ImageList control. Since an ImageList is a collection of images, it is fitting that this control be covered in the same chapter as Arrays and Lists.
Expanded - Chapter 8 has been split into two chapters, with new material added to both of the resulting chapters. In this edition, Chapter 8 is titled Text Processing and Chapter 9 is titled Structures, Enumerated Types, and Dictionaries.
New - Two chapters added to this edition: Chapter 13 Delegates and Lambda Expressions and Chapter 14 Language-Integrated Query (LINQ).

Pedagogical features convey and reinforce major concepts

Example programs that are practical and include short examples that highlight specific programming topics, as well as more involved examples that focus on problem solving.
Review Questions and Programming Problems appear in each chapter and present a thorough and diverse set of review questions and exercises.
Concept Statements, Notes, and Checkpoints appear throughout each chapter to reinforce students’ understanding of key chapter topics.
Each Tutorial in the book has an accompanying online VideoNote accessible on the book’s companion site www.pearson.com/cs-resources. Students can follow along with the author as he or she works through each tutorial. Also, one programming problem at the end of each chapter has an accompanying VideoNote that shows the student how to create the solution.

Check out the preface for a complete list of features and what's new in this edition.

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