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I'm looking to learn C#. I have recently installed Unity and i'm really enjoying playing around with it.

I have been lucky enough to have access to a £4000.00 grant that i can spend on higher education. i thought it would be good to take a C# course. it would have to be something that i can fit around my busy life as a full time dad. i found this https://www.codecademy.com/ that looks good but im not sure.

I have spent a few days now googling and there is so much to choose from and me being a total beginner i don't even know what a good course should contain. there is soooo much free content out there but im looking for quality and a lot and i mean a lot of hand holding.

So please i need some recommendations from you guys that already know what your talking about (for the most part?)

also if there is some money left from the 4k is there any other courses you can recommend that will help me become an indie game dev.

and as always thank you for taking the time to read this. -Stu-

This is what im thinking will be good but what do i know.

https://www.codecademy.com/​ < ----------------- (update don't even bother, its a total bag of dicks and they actually have u make a dick pic in java script. they call it a ghost but its clearly a dick with a smiley face)

i found it on this site.

https://digitaldefynd.com/best-c-sharp-tutorial-course-certification/

just a little update to myself and anyone interested. https://www.codecademy.com/​ is awful.. don't even bother, im really glad they have a 7 day free trial. dont just take my word for it, have a look at this.

Monogame

Good book for Monogame

https://www.amazon.com/dp/3662592517

Once you've got the basics, Jon Skeet's book C# In Depth was highly recommended to me.

@re15531 what did you like about the book compared to other books please? Because I have found some very bad reviews.

@fleabay thank you buddy, i'm not sure this is for me. there's a few reviews like this one:

This book needs xna framework which is no longer supported or updated. It also needs Microsoft studio 2010.... Which is no longer downloadable.... I sent it back after trying multiple work around. I emailed the author and asked about updates to xna or studio, and got back "when they update xna, we'll update the website"..... Only they are no longer updating xna.

Not worth the hassle. Also, xna is being phased out completely.

what are your thoughts?

Hello.

i believe i have found what i have been looking for.

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/programming-unity-game-development​

This is fantastic and i'm already half way through the first course.

for any “guy off the street” interested in making their own games, this is the course for you! feel free to PM me with any questions if interested.

-Stu- said:
what are your thoughts?

I'm thinking you're looking at reviews for 1st edition. 2nd edition was completely rewritten for Monogame just last year.

I've worked through the first few chapters and skimmed the rest. It's a very good book.

The link I posted was clearly for the 2nd edition.

@-Stu- In my view, anyone who has the time to film and edit YouTube videos reviewing books like this does not spend the time “banging on the keyboard” that one really needs to become a professional, experienced programmer. Frankly, his review is so surface level I don't know where to begin. The reviewer's suggestion to read the docs is one worth taking, though. I believe Skeet suggests it himself at points in the book. The point of the book is to discuss how the language has evolved to solve an increasing variety of problems developers before you have encountered. I found it very useful as someone who's worked through Stroustrup's books on C++ before. I needed to understand how the language was different, and its chronological evolution was useful in that respect for me.