Learn C# online?

kingmetal

Hey folks,

My plans to get a computer science minor aren't going to work out and I'm soon going to find myself thrust squarely into the IT industry without a technical degree. I've taken enough basic C++ to be comfortable with basics of object-oriented programming, but I'm really interested in learning C# and getting initiated into the whole .Net thing. I am absolutely terrible at self motivating this kind of learning, but I'm going to do my darndest by hopefully creating and implementing projects that I can use at my job (I am currently an IT Desktop Technician at a major enterprise in San Francisco). I'm looking for good books / online resources for C# as well as any online classes anyone can recommend. There aren't any C# classes at my local community college or at my current college (which I will be graduating from in about a month). Night classes in the San Francisco bay area would also be fine. Money isn't what I'm worried about.

Any general advice also would be fantastic.

Thanks in advance!

Jasconius

I like this reference a lot

http://www.harding.edu/fmccown/vbnet_csharp_comparison.html

You don't know VB, but this is just a big cheat sheet for logic, operators, and other things in C#.

It's really not hard to learn at all, especially since you have a background in another language.

For .NET, how you learn depends on if you want to do desktop applications or web applications. The actual Microsoft-published Training books, I find, are excellently written, and would be a good place to start. I am referring to the Certification manuals.