这本英文影印版的程序设计教程是如此的与众不同。它使用认知科学和学习理论的最新研究成果，为你带来多感官的学习体验。它采用了丰富、可视、适于大脑工作的形式，而不是用过多的文字使你感到昏昏欲睡。它是一本趣味性很强的教程，充满了便于记忆的例子和好玩的练习。

本书是包含面向对象编程、C#和Visual Studio集成开发环境的一次完整学习经历。针对大脑学习的特点，本书涵盖了C# 3.0和Visual Studio 2008, 并且讲解了从垃圾收集到扩展方法再到双缓冲动画的所有内容。你将掌握C#的最新最热门的语法、LINQ、.NET集合数据查询、SQL数据库以及更多内容。学完本书之时，你将成为一个熟练的C#程序员，能够设计并编写大规模的应用程序。

Table of Contents(Summary)

 Intro

 1 Get productive with C#: Visual Applications, in 10 minutes or less

 2 It's All Just Code: Under the hood

 3 Objects Get Oriented: Making code make sense

 4 Types and References: It's 10:00. Doyou know whereyour data is? C# Lab 1: A Day at the Races

 5 Encapsulation: Keepyourprivates... private

 6 Inheritance: 13ur object'sJhmily tree

 7 Interfaces and abstract classes: Making classes keep their promises

 8 Enums and collections: Storing lots of data C# Lab 2: The Quest

 9 Reading and writing fries: Save the byte array, save the world

 10 Exception handling: Putting Out Fires Gets Old

 11 Events and delegates: What 13ur Code Does When you're Not Looking

 12 Review and preview: Knowledge, Power, and Building Cool Stuff

 13 Controls and graphics: Make it pretty

 14 Captain Amazing: The Death of the Object

 15 LINQ:Get control of your data

 C# Lab3:Invaders

 Appendix i:Leftovers

Table of Contents(the real thing)

　Intro

　Who is this book for？

　We know what you're thinking

　Metacognition

　Bend your brain into submission

　What you need for this book

　Read me

　The technical review team

　Acknowledgments