[Wrecked944]

I've been programming computers for almost 2/3 of my life. And I have always made it a point to delve deeply into the theory of software design and try to write code that Dr von Neumann, himself, would be proud of. Merely functional code has never been sufficient for me. I have always wanted my code to be elegant, painfully easy to understand and, if possible, beautiful.

To that end, I've always sought out examples of top shelf code from other people so I could learn from it. In whatever language I've used, I tried to keep copies of perfectly written code snippets on hand to be reviewed, refined, and re-used again and again.

So lately I have been coding in C#. Nice language. Not exactly the most challenging thing in the world. But that's okay. It works. And I am really trying to dig deeply into the structure of C#'s oop world to try to make this language sing. Unfortunately, the coding examples I see on the internet were mostly written by dyslexic monkeys on acid. And the "Standard and Practices" websites I have found mostly focus on variable naming conventions and indenting. And that stuff only scratches the surface of what makes an elegant program.

So can anyone point me towards a resource that really digs deeply into the theory of oop design in general and C# in particular? I mean, any moron can make this stuff work...and clearly many do. But where do the real hardcore techie geeks hang out and get down with oop algorithms and esoteric theory?