Defensive Coding in C#

Course Overview
Hi everyone. My name is Deborah Kurata. Welcome to my course, Defensive Coding in C#. Great applications help users enter correct data, perform required operations as expected, handle system and application exceptions, and make it easy for future developers to modify and maintain the code. Defensive coding techniques are a set of programming guidelines and habits that will immeasurably improve your code's comprehension, quality, and predictability. Some of the major topics that we will cover include improving your code's comprehension by writing clean code and following techniques such as the single responsibility principle, improving your code's quality through unit tests, and improving your code's predictability by validating method arguments with Guard clauses, handling nulls appropriately, returning predictable results, and managing exceptions. Along the way, we'll explore some of the newer features of C#, including the reference type nullability features in C# 8, the enhanced tuple syntax from C# 7, and the null conditional operator and exception filter syntax from C# 6. By the end of this course, you will learn the techniques you need to protect your code, both now and in the future from the perils of the real world. I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn defensive coding techniques with the Defensive Coding in C# course, at Pluralsight.