losing the will

cheers for that guys ill stick with it. I am just disapointed there is no course that a recoganised body runs eg Open University to get people on their way and proliferate ideas between the budding new programmers. Ive ordered some more books from amazon and ill see where that gets me.

Cheers again

Jay

I tend to agree with Yousef; there are a great many resources available to you on the web as well in print.  If you are looking for a more academic approach to your studies, you might consider purchasing text books or you might look int reading through a sequence of books starting with the beginner level topics and working up to the more advanced.  If you flip over any Wrox Press title, on the back of the book you will see that the publisher has printed a road map showing the books they recommend one read in order in which they should be read.

All books except the programmers references are generally packed with examples, rather than just reading the examples, work them all out, no matter how basic, and start keeping an organized code library of the bits that you have figured out. It also does not hurt to fool around with the code samples and get them to do other things aside from what the author intended.

The Microsoft Step By Step books are also good as are many of the Sams Unleashed titles.  Bear in mind that .NET is not something you can become proficient with after reading a book or two, there are nearly a half million properties and methods in the framework libraries and, as Yousef stated, practice is the real key to learning this stuff.

I think you are taking it a bit too hard on yourself... I think there are plenty of resources to learn C# out there, but your best bet will always be by practice. I might add also reading some people's C# tech blogs on a daily basis, some good blogs out there provide small tips every now and then, also this forum is a great resource, and slowly you'll accumulate lots of knowledge before you know it.

Best of luck!