A book on Block chain programming with C# has been released. It contains chapters on bitcoin transactions, key generation and storage, ownership, assets and more. You will need Visual Studio 2013 and Bitcoin Core, both are free to download from the web. The book contains many programming examples and the audience of the book are programmers and technical minded people.
The first chapters can be read here: https://aois.blob.core.windows.net/public/Blockchain%20Programming%20in%20CSharp.pdf
You can read more about the book here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=926087.0