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• Programming Languages : C#
• Programming : Agile Development
• Programming : .NET
• Programming : Object-Oriented

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Apply what you know about extreme programming and object-oriented design to learning C# and the Microsoft® .NET Framework on the fly. Author Ron Jeffries, a leading voice and practitioner in the extreme programming movement, demonstrates how to apply its key concepts-including the use of customer stories, customer acceptance tests, and "Spikes"-and the fundamental techniques of Simple Design, Test-Driven Development, and Refactoring to create practical, .NET-ready applications. You'll also learn how to use NUnit, a unit-testing tool for .NET languages. This essential, high-level reference provides the expert guidance, hands-on insights, and downloadable code you need to build an XML editor, a database application, a Web service, and other useful applications-quickly extending your extreme programming expertise to .NET and helping you deliver business value right away.

Ronald E. Jeffries was the on-site coach for the original eXtreme programming (XP) project. An independent consultant who has been involved in XP for more than five years, he has presented numerous talks and published several papers on the topic. He and his teams have built operating systems, compilers, relational database systems, and a wide range of applications. He is the most prolific on-line author by far in eXtreme Programming and related topics

Mar 23, 2004     Mike Cohn (mike@mountaingoatsoftware.com) from Lafayette, CO
Great book for learning how to think about programming
I learned to program back in the dark ages before books came with CDs or websites where you could download the authors code. Back then, if you wanted the authors code, you typed it in from the book. I typed in the code from many wonderful books and I learned to code that way. As I typed, I was paying attention to the code, not just mindlessly hitting the keys. While this taught me what a great programmers code looked like when it was done, it didnt teach me how that programmer arrived at the solution that was in the book. What I always wanted was to see the authors thought process as he arrived at the finished code presented in the book.

With Ron Jeffries Extreme Programming Adventures in C# I finally have that opportunity to watch over the shoulder of a great programmer and watch not only his code but, more importantly, how he thinks. I love that the author is willing to show his dead ends and false starts. And then how he recovers from them. The book is really language agnostic. Its in C# but the lessons are more about programming and thinking about programming than about a specific language. I highly recommend this to all programmers, not just C# programmers.

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