This book and video package is a self-paced guide to C# programming. Easy-to-follow lessons, reinforced by step-by-step instructions, screencasts, and supplemental exercises, allow readers of all learning styles to master C# programming quickly and painlessly. The book starts from scratch, assuming the reader has little or no programming experience.  the book is divided into lessons that teach a specific concept or technique, and then invites the reader to "try it", by performing a programming exercise to solidify the lesson's ideas.   the try it has several subsections: goals describes the exercise so the reader knows what should happen. Hints give pointers about possible confusing aspects of the problem if they are needed. Step-by-step provides a numbered series of steps that show how to solve the problem. For each lesson, there's a screencast in which the author shows how to work through the try it problem. He also covers additional bonus content---more than 10 hours of video training is provided!   the book also includes additional exercises and solutions, so that readers can practice what they've learned.