C# Programming for the Absolute Beginner

C# Programming for the Absolute Beginner

This course is designed for the new programmer, wishing to start a career in application/web development.

Many people realise that the easiest way to learn is by seeing and doing. This course takes this easy to follow approach, with lots of opportunity to practice, plenty of examples to verify your work, easy to follow explanations, and plenty of sample code to examine.

In no time at all, you can start writing simple programs of your own design, using one of the most vibrant and popular languages of today, C.

Course Goals:

Delegates will learn the core C# language. Stating with variables, how to create and use them effectively, and the different types of data available to the developer. Then the Delegates will start to build C# programs using constructs such as if statements and loops. Delegates will then explore the structure of a C# application by creating methods and calling them when needed. Delegates will then create reusable classes to hold methods and provide the back end code for an application.

Topics:

Your First Program

• Course Overview

• What is .NET

• The Programming Environment

• Basic .NET coding

• Running a Program in Visual Studio

Variables

• What is a variable

• Naming conventions

• Data Types

• Numeric Data Types Variables and Math

• Obtaining User Input

Decisions

• What if?

• Providing and Alternative

• Checking Multiple Possibilities

• Time to switch

Loops

• Safe Loops

• Unsafe Loops

• Controlling Loop Flow

• Loops within Loops

• Running Programs

• Comments

• Building Solutions

• Running the Application

• Debugging

Arrays

• What is an Array

• The use of Arrays

• Multidimensional Arrays

• Using Strings

• An overview of Strings

• Escape Sequences

• Concatenation

• String Data Types

• String Manipulation

• Introduction to Methods

• Parameters

• Return Value

• Collections

• ArrayList

• Boxing and Unboxing

• Generic List

• Hash Tables

More on Methods

• Overloading

• Passing by Value vs by Reference

• The Out Keyword

• Parameter Arrays

Classes

• Constructor

• Constructor and Structures

• Properties

• Class Methods

Handling Exceptions

• Try your code

• Catch an Exception

• Catching Specific Exceptions

• Finally

• Throwing Exceptions