The idea for this book came when I was an assistant at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Philipps-University Marburg, Germany. Several times I faced the task of supporting lectures and seminars on complex analysis of several variables and found out that there are very few books on the subject,compared to the vast amount of literature on function theory of one variable, let alone on real variables or basic algebra. Even fewer books, to my understanding,were written primarily with the student in mind. So it was quite hard to find supporting examples and exercises that helped the student to become familiar with the fascinating theory of several complex variables.