Question, old programming books for beginnner okay?

[ZenMasta]

Hi, I have a couple of csharp books for beginners that I never used. They
were published around the 1.0 framework era. Would I be doing a friend a
disservice by giving him these books? ie. should he buy more recently
published books instead or will the ones I have be okay.

I would hate for him to use these books and then feel like he's having to
relearn 3.0 framework code. I'm not a programmer myself so I really don't
know how much is changed or whatever. I heard was they included more
namespaces and chagned some syntax? I'm hoping that since they're beginner
books, most of the code samples and training will not be dramatically
affected by newer framework versions.

Thanks a lot.

p.s. oh, if you don't recommend using the old books please recommend new
ones.

Books are
Learning C# - Jesse Liberty
C# By Dissection - Ira Pohl

[ZenMasta]

Re: Question, old programming books for beginnner okay?

Thanks for your opinion. This would be for someone completely new to c# with
minor programming experience in java and php.

[Michael A. Covington]

Re: Question, old programming books for beginnner okay?

I think a good way to sum it up is that C# 1.0 books are fine, but if
something in C# 1.0 seems tedious, look in a newer book to see if it has
been made less so.