   C# books
  Hi guys I am just wondering if anyone knows of any good beginner C# books which I can use to get a foothold on the language. I am looking for a good book which will teach me the basic syntax and maybe even get me started with XNA any good ones you can recommend?   
  I personally went through Head First C# it's a very easy book to follow, it's actually the first "textbook" I've ever read from cover to cover!After you've been through that, you should have a fair enough knowledge of C# to get started with XNA, and for XNA I just did all the tutorials I could find online.   ;  Thanks alot :D I will look into it.   ;  The XNA creators club has two excellent tutorials on 2D and 3D programming in XNA here - LINK.I got C# 2008 For Dummies and found it very informative, well written, easy to understand and good code examples. Good luck!   ;  Thanks :D   ;  +1 for Head First C#. I'm using it now and it's easy to understand!   ;Quote:Original post by EtherealTrance+1 for Head First C#. I'm using it now and it's easy to understand!+2 for "Head First C#" here too since it's the first C# book I actually enjoyed. The Petzold C# book is free but it put me to sleep...;  There's a free one from Programmer's Heaven: It's alright, but I found it a bit brief on some matters.The other one I found good was "C# 3.0: A Beginner's Guide". It had everything you needed to know, and was easy to read.For XNA, the good site I know of was www.xnadevelopment.com, which is very good for 2D. -T.C.D   ;  I liked "C# and the .NET platform" by Andrew Troelsen and "C# for experienced programmers" by Deitel et al. Both are not up to date anymore, so you might want to pick the current editions ("Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform" and "C# 2008 for Programmers").   