Rating: 

The book starts off with the basics of programming, but goes through them really fast. If you are totally new to programming, I wouldn't recommend this book because in that case some of the basics of programming need more coverage as is given in this book. Altho, for me personally this wasn't a problem. I rather found it a pro instead of a con.

The book has alot of code snippets in it which is great. In my opinion it is a great way to learn by example and have the examples explained. When you try to build something yourself, you can grab pieces of the code snippets as an example of how it should be done.

The book covered the different subjects on a great pace. Not too over simplified but not too fast or too difficult either. You just have to take the time to read it, try it and get the feeling of how it should be done.

One drawback on the book is the coverage on LINQ. The book discusses it, but for more indepth information about LINQ I had to find internet articles. On the other hand you can't expect everything from one book of course. But it went through some subjects really fast. If I wasn't very familiar with MySQL already I would have been lost.

Overall I liked the book and am now able to use C#. Not to the level I want myself to be, but that will come in time.