4 Thinking in C# www.ThinkingIn.Net
people who were smiling and nodding were confused about many issues. I
found out, by chairing the C++ track at the Software Development
Conference for a number of years (and later the Java track), that I and
other speakers tended to give the typical audience too many topics too fast.
So eventually, through both variety in the audience level and the way that
I presented the material, I would end up losing some portion of the
audience. Maybe it’s asking too much, but because I am one of those
people resistant to traditional lecturing (and for most people, I believe,
such resistance results from boredom), I wanted to try to keep everyone
up to speed.
For a time, I was creating a number of different presentations in fairly
short order. Thus, I ended up learning by experiment and iteration (a
technique that also works well in C# program design). Eventually I
developed a course using everything I had learned from my teaching
experience—one that I would be happy giving for a long time. It tackles
the learning problem in discrete, easy-to-digest steps, and in a hands-on
seminar (the ideal learning situation) there are exercises following each of
the short lessons. I now give this course in public C# seminars, which you
can find out about at www.BruceEckel.com. (The introductory seminar is
also available as a CD ROM. Information is available at the same Web
site.)
The feedback that I get from each seminar helps me change and refocus
the material until I think it works well as a teaching medium. But this
book isn’t just seminar notes—I tried to pack as much information as I
could within these pages, and structured it to draw you through onto the
next subject. More than anything, the book is designed to serve the
solitary reader who is struggling with a new programming language.
Goals
Tk. Like my previous book Thinking in C++, this book has come to be
structured around the process of teaching the language. In particular, my
motivation is to create something that provides me with a way to teach the
language in my own seminars. When I think of a chapter in the book, I
think in terms of what makes a good lesson during a seminar. My goal is
to get bite-sized pieces that can be taught in a reasonable amount of time,
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