So what? That's not what the original question was about. It was about how to get someone to be able to program in C#, and giving that person some theoretical books on computer science is probably a very bad idea.

Some people learn very well just by reading a book, most people don't. It's impossible to answer the original question in a good way without knowing how that person learns best, what he knows beforehand, what he's done so far, and what he wants to use programming for.