... object - oriented programming and C# can do for you. flast.indd xxiflast.indd xxi 4/8/08 12:53:10 AM4/8/08 12:53:10 AMIntroductionxxii Who This Book is For The book assumes no prior programming ... shortcuts, remember. What This Book Covers This text begins with a non - programming - language introduction to object - oriented programming. The goal of that chapter is to present the concept of ... Well, no, I didn ’ t . . . not really. When I wrote my first book over 25 years ago, object - oriented programming (OOP) was obscure at best and unknown to most. Like so many others, I had to go...