C# Yellow Book 2016 "Cheese Edition" Now Available

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The latest release (or is that escape) of the C# Yellow Book is now available for download. No massive changes to the text, but a few tweaks and corrections here and there. And cheese. 

You can download it (along with sample code and whatnot) from here.

The Kindle version will be updated soon. I'm just grappling with adding an index. (why does making Kindle books have to be so hard?)

 

And, while we are on the subject of books what I wrote, you can now buy printed (or Kindle) copies of my lovely new "Begin to Code with C#", which was published a few weeks ago.

It's a great introduction to programming (said the author) and gets you creating useful and fun applications and games using my magical Snaps framework. 

Voice Powered Pizza Picking

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I've been playing with the Voice Response in Windows 10. It works very well. The latest libraries allow you to write code that recognises one of a number of phrases. I've been working on this as part of "Begin To Code With C#", the book which, even as we speak is taking shape. 

I've written a "Snap" (one of my pre-built software components) that makes it dead easy to create your own voice controlled software. Above is a screen shot from the "Voice Enabled Pizza Picker" that I'm building. 

Fun fact: The word "Pepperoni" seems to be recognised very well, but for some reason "Vegetarian" doesn't get picked up half as well....