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Tayl
August 20th, 2010, 10:05 PM
Hey all.

Recently I've befriended an IT engineer that has really sparked my interest in programming. I've programmed before although I'm years out of touch and used to a language that is no longer in use (became alright'ish at Delphi). I'm now extremely interested in learning C#.

Are there any applications / environments / tools / programs that are available to program C# within? For both or either Linux or Windows? preferably free as I'm strapped for cash as it is and only starting out.

Also, got any advice? Any books you'd suggest I start reading? Any websites online and such that might be of help?

Regards,

Tayl.

gtr32
August 20th, 2010, 10:11 PM
Mono & MonoDevelop

juancarlospaco
August 20th, 2010, 10:13 PM
Learn Python

gnomeuser
August 21st, 2010, 12:10 AM
Stackoverflow is a great site to get answers to any questions on any aspect of programming.

MonoDevelop will generally be your weapon of choice for an IDE.

As for learning C#:

A good set of examples to get started with
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288436(VS.71).aspx
http://www.csharp-station.com/Tutorial.aspx

A little while ago someone did some C# beginners classes a part of the Ubuntu Classroom project, you can look for the logs for the days. As I recall it went through installing the required packages to writing your first example programs.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Classroom

Finally the Banshee source code is also a good example of a complex application mostly done in C#, you will find examples of most kind operations reading in there.