Hello everyone,

Just signed up for the website, I'm a current college student studying computer programming. C-Sharp being one of my favorite languages! I've always had an interest in games and network development and I stumbled apon this site this morning. As a student I'm always looking for ways to improve my programming skills and knowledge, one great way I've heard is to contribute to open source projects. So here I am, I'm hoping to get knees deep in code and hopfully make a contribution to this community. If anyone has any tips for a new member or a open source programmer in general please let me know!

Hope to see you all around!

Sunset

Posted By SunsetKnight on 03 Jan 2010 11:43 AM
Thanks for the welcome! Does anyone have any suggestions on reading material that might help further my C# skills?

For general C# knowledge, I recommend John Skeet's C# in Depth This book should be in your local library by now.

There are a couple places with video that I like:

• DimeCasts - Free
• Learn Visual Studio - Some free content, most paid

I follow a few blogs of .NET people:

• Scott Hanselman
• Rocky Lhokta
• Scott Guthrie
• Oren Eani (Ayende Rahien)
• Karl Seguin

Blogs with daily list of interesting .NET links:

• Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew
• DotNetKicks

I have a Twitter list with a lot of interesting .NET people.  http://twitter.com/systemwidgets/net  It's really fun talking to some of these folks on Twitter.

Let us know if you have a specific area that you want to learn new stuff, either C# or just programming practices and/or work environment.

I actually hadn't run into any C# books that I like well enough to keep my attention, but I never looked very hard. With each language and year of work experience I guess the need for anything more than online sources/references seems to diminish. For learning the language proper, I would recommend finding such a book though.

Anyway, there's a good number of online RSS feeds I follow, as I accumulate them into Outlook and read a few of the unread posts when I have a few minutes to spare. Quite convenient. Some feeds that Fasta didn't list and still seem active are:
* Coding Horror
* Elegant Code
* Eric Lee
* Eric Lippert

Typically MMO/MUD related reading:
* Elder Game
* bc-dev