Online C# Tutorial for students

Question

I have two student interns starting today with no C# experience, although they have used Java.

I'm looking for any experience with teaching students C#, any links to good online tutorials (no video ones, as they don't have headphones), etc. I have found a few tutorials myself, I was wondering if anybody had any specific ones that they have found useful.

I think for now at least, the basics will suffice, such as syntax, properties, control flow, classes, etc. I think I will leave LINQ, delegates, anonymous types until a little later, once they've got their feet wet with some actual coding.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I personally find Microsoft's "How do I" videos of C# very helpful. The good point is that it has an RSS feed that you can add to your feed-reader and stay up to date always.

Also these series from LearnVisualStudio.NET team is good.

You can also use these links from PluralSight training company which are really cool and informative:

1. C# 4 New Features
2. C# 5 New Features
3. C# Fundamentals
4. Introduction to C# and .NET

Answer 2

I also think the PluralSight courses are very good. (I write courses for them other than those mentioned by @Saeed.) If your students are in DreamSpark (and they should be) they can have 90 days of PluralSight - all the training they can consume - for free. http://blog.pluralsight.com/2011/02/24/dreamspark-pluralsight/ has the details.

Seems to me a $10 pair of headphones for each of them would be a worthwhile investment to make video courses possible, but if not, perhaps the viewers PluralSight has for various smart phones might be helpful, allowing them to watch the courses while away from the office?

Answer 3

This should more or less cover it - it's what I used to transition from Java to C# (also a student).