My Learning C# Post

Well, I've decided to go ahead and learn C#. Not because I don't love AHK, but because from what I hear there are a few things that I want to do that are better done in a language like C#. I will likely always use AHK for a lot of things as it is great for a lot of things.

That being said, I figured I'd just make this post and use it as a Blog/Tutorial of what I am doing. Then when I'm either a C# expert or I completely fail at learning this we will know that my method of learning is either very good and should be copied, OR it sucks ass and should be ignored.

I'm not going to rush through this so don't ask why I'm not an expert after two weeks. I plan on writing down every book I read, every program I use and every web site I visit along with a description of what I found useful or useless on each. Hopefully this will be helpful.

I'm also going to try to get this first post and the next two or three reserved for me so I can just keep everything right at the beginning of the thread in case people actually give a shit and post here. I'd be happy to hear suggestions, tips, resources, ect of what you have used in the past to learn C#.

Under the resources (listed below) I will put a * next to anything that I got that is available on torrents. Of course I did not get them from torrents and am only putting the star there to help you avoid getting them from torrents. I figure if you know they are available on torrents then you won't be tempted to check and then maybe mistakenly download them, which is illegal and wrong so don't do it. Torrents are bad mmkay?


Thank You!

RESOURCES:
[PROGRAM]Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate *
[e-book]Head First C# (Published by O'Reilly. I've used and learned lots from the "Head First" series in the past) *
[Web Site] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307023 <---Shows how to make web requests with C#
[Web Site] http://www.csharp-station.com/HowTo/HttpWebFetch.aspx <---More web request info
[Web Site] http://www.geekpedia.com/tutorial175...d-headers.html <---Nice intro to how to get web page info! See my program I made following this page's instructions in the attachments of this thread.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P2KvFN_aLY&fmt=22 <---Tutorial on how to make simple bots in C# by LeetCheets. 3 part series, links to other parts are in the description of this one. VERY useful. *took the link from CN. If Leet does not want it here just let me know but since I figured it was public on YouTube it should be fine.

People that have helped me directly (AIM/Chat box, ect):
Precise
Hey
Mikah




ATTACHMENTS
http://truecheaters.com/CSharp.rar <---Program which you enter the URL you want the source for, along with the referrer and user agent (default included) and it will get the headers and content of page.

Update - 10/10/2010:
Added some additional resources. Also attached a program I made (following the instructions of one of the web pages I found) that will go grab web site info using your specifications. Its actually kind of useful and I learned quite a bit doing it. Feel free to try it if you want (see OP)


Progress: So far I have made a simple business card program (following instructions from the Head First Bot). WOW...C# makes a lot of things easy for you. I'm really liking it so far.

I've also made a bot that goes and fetches the info of google.com (no browser) and displays it. This will likely be quite useful for making 100% web request bots in the future. I've got a lot more to learn on this still though. Also I made a bot with a embedded web browser. All it does so far is open the bot, browse to google, wait a few seconds and browse to yahoo. still...progress.

Reserved #2

Updated with some more resources and stuff. So far so good.

Can I see where you got your google info or maybe source code from the google webrequest bot? I r trying to learn to .. So any info I r appreciating

Sure. The nice thing about C# (and any visual XXX language I think) is a lot of the code is pre-written by visual studio. I'll post the code later when I get home from my kids soccer games though, its pretty simple really.

Update - 10/10/2010:
Added some additional resources. Also attached a program I made (following the instructions of one of the web pages I found) that will go grab web site info using your specifications. Its actually kind of useful and I learned quite a bit doing it. Feel free to try it if you want (see OP)

Added VERY useful link in resources.

So I r fixed the desktop and made the first chapter apz and it works and everything...Pretty sweet LOL...On to chapter 2

SB: you said "Also I made a bot with a embedded web browser. All it does so far is open the bot, browse to google, wait a few seconds and browse to yahoo. still...progress."

If possible could you post the code (plus quick instructions if necessary). Im a super noob to C#, but this would be really helpful to the direction I want to go with it.