Good asp.net and app books (4+ and MVC)?

[The_Fire]

Sooooo.....It looks like I'm finally getting some of the courses I've been wanting, but been denied for the last two years. Including, hopefully, a .NET webdeveloper microsoft certificate one and an app developer workshop. (as well as a couple of refreshers on Jquery and Javascript in general)

All courses and workshops will include free books/material (one even a free ipad mini ) however since I'm apparently sorted into Ravenclaw instead of Slytherin, I was wondering if any of you knew of a couple of good books on the subjects.

I was looking for at least a good introduction(No "for dummies" recommends please) for someone otherwise trained, and experienced, in PHP/MySQL and a good pro book (in style with the O'reilly one on PHP) on both subjects. The app workshop will be focusing on things for Itunes(Iphone and Ipads) allthough I am also trying to find a good course for Android.

what? I was just told I have the right to 28 weeks of free, government sponsored education based on getting my job oppertunities expanded. Might as well use it.

 

[Dessi]

I think you can familiarize yourself well enough with MVC and webforms from the ASP.NET site's tutorials: see the MVC Tutorial and Webform Tutorial. I personally recommend skipping webforms entirely in favor of MVC, I wouldn't bother learning webforms unless you had a pressing need to do so.

For books specifically, I'm consistently happy with the black and yellow "Pro [XYZ]" series of books published by Professional Apress:

ASP.NET MVC 3 + C# 3.5: Steve Sanderson's Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework is a crowd favorite.

ASP.NET MVC 4 + C# 4.0: Adam Freedman's Pro ASP.NET MVC 4 should be equally good and up-to-date.

If you have zero experience with C#, I'll recommend flipping through Head First C#. Quick read without missing anything important, stylistically engaging, more than adequate reference since you're already familiar with PHP.

 

[Wowbagger]

For some reason, I've almost always used Wrox books. The "Professional" titled ones tend to be very comprehensive. They also have "Beginning" titled ones that still treat you more like a pro than some others around.

O'Reilly seems to be popular, though.

 

[Wudang]

Try browsing here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books

 

[The_Fire]

First of sorry for not getting back to you all earlier. Due to a cracked tooth, jaw infection and an eye infection all happening at the same time, I've been on a rather complex cocktail of painkilllers, penicilin and eyedrops for the last couple of days and asleep more often than not (to add to the pain: The cracked tooth can't be removed untill the jaw infection is gone and then there was this detail about a possible entanglement with a facial nerve running awfully close to the root of bad tooth.....whoopie.....)

Anyway: I actually think that a couple of these books show up on the "materials you'll recieve list" but I know that I'll need to invest in at least the one on C#. Aw hell, I'll probably invest in them all and put the doubles up on ebay....

Thank you very much for your help, you have given me a great starting point.

 

[Fizil]

CLR via C#

Required reading for anyone doing .NET development.

 

[Wudang]

The C# Yellow book on the SO link I gave is a good start.