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Thinking about going back into IT, been looking at some VB on Visual Studio and will also look at C#.

Since it's been 10 years since I've done this professionally, the development environment and languages are a bit different from my previous experience (C, weeny bits of C++ & Java).

Does anyone know of any decent books that would assist my learning for today's IT world - Dummy's or Idiot's guide would be ideal but I don't think they do anything suitable.

In reply to Michael Hood:

Not sure I would bother with VB rather than c#, is there any specific reason?
Headfirst series gets good reviews for not being good intros so might be worth a look at one of them.
Other than that oreilly programming c# and c# in a nutshell aint bad but not really designed as intro books.
Main difference from ten years back though is the amount available on line. MS have some not bad tutorials.

In reply to Michael Hood:
Do C# rather than VB.

I don't know the C/C++ market so well but there is a big demand for Java.

In reply to Michael Hood:

I'm a bit dubious of IT books as much of the information becomes rapidly out of date.

However, if I were starting from scratch I'd probably get Charles Petzold's 'Programming Windows' (6th edition)