We got some great projects from the Head First C# contest!

In my last guest post on the Visual Studio blog, I announced a contest to give away copies of Head First C# (4th edition), the new book by Jenny Greene and me that was just released by O’Reilly Media earlier this month. In that post, you can read all about how we use Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac as powerful learning and exploration tools, taking advantage of their features that help you create and understand your code to help you learn C#. We put Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac right at the center of the book and incorporated Visual Studio directly in the learning, combining Visual Studio with the unique and innovative “brain-friendly” Head First approach to teaching to help make learning C## easier and more fun for our readers.

Well, the contest is over, and we got an amazing response. Thank you so much to everyone who entered—and congratulations to our lucky winners!

For our contest, we asked people to do download the free PDF with the complete first four chapters from the _Head First C## (4th edition) _GitHub page, do the project in the first chapter to build an animal matching game, and submit a link to us. We got too many entries to list them all, but I wanted to call out a few especially creative ones.

Check out these fun solutions to the coding challenge!

Okay, without further ado, let’s have a look at those projects! This great entry from GitHub user Zerotonine adds a nice visual flair to the WPF version of the Animal Match Game app by adding a background to the cell that the mouse is hovering over.

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