C# Fundamentals

By Scott Allen
This course gives you everything you need to become a productive C# developer on any platform. Learn the basics of reading and writing C# code in your own applications.
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Rating
(561)
Level
Beginner
Updated
Apr 16, 2019
Duration
6h 4m
Table of contents
Course Overview
Course Overview 1m
Introducing C# and .NET
Creating the First C# Project 5m Debugging a C# Application 9m Downloading .NET for Windows, macOS, and Linux 3m Editing C# Code with Visual Studio Code 5m Introduction 1m Running and Building Your Project 7m Saying Hello with C# 8m Summary 1m Understanding .NET and .NET Core 2m Understanding the .NET Runtime and Framework 3m Using the .NET Command Line Interface 4m
Learning the C# Syntax
Adding Numbers and Creating Arrays 7m Computing and Formatting the Result 3m Introduction 1m Looping through Arrays 6m Reviewing Your Assignment 1m Summary 1m Using a List 8m Working with Code Blocks and Statements 9m
Working with Classes and Objects
Adding State and Behavior 4m Adding a Constructor 8m Computing Statistics 2m Creating a Class 6m Defining a Field 3m Defining a Method 3m Introduction 0m Requiring Constructor Parameters 7m Solving the Statistics Challenge 3m Summary 1m Working with Static Members 9m
Testing Your Code
Creating a Unit Test Project 5m Introduction 1m Refactoring for Testability 11m Referencing Projects and Packages 8m Summary 0m The Many Benefits of Unit Testing 2m Writing and Running a Test 8m
Working with Reference Types and Value Types
Creating a Solution File 3m Introduction 0m Looking for Reference Types and Value Types 6m Passing Parameters by Reference 5m Passing Parameters by Value 2m Reference Types and Value Types 4m Referencing Different Objects 4m Returning Object References 4m Summary 0m Taking Advantage of Garbage Collection 2m Testing Object References 7m The Special Case of Strings in .NET 4m Value Type Parameters 1m Working with Value Types 2m
Controlling the Flow of Execution
Branching with if Statements 5m Catching Exceptions 6m Challenge: Taking User Input from the Console 2m Introduction 1m Jumping with break and continue 3m Looping with for, foreach, do, and while 7m One Solution 5m Pattern Matching with switch 5m Summary 0m Switching with the switch Statement 6m Throwing Exceptions 4m
Building Types
Defining Properties 5m Defining Property Getters and Setters 3m Defining a Delegate 8m Defining an Event 8m Defining const Members 3m Defining readonly Members 2m Introducing Events and Delegates 1m Introduction 0m Overloading Methods 3m Subscribing to an Event 6m Summary 0m Using Multi-cast Delegates 5m
Object-oriented Programming with C#
A Statistical Challenge 4m Chaining Constructors 3m Defining an Abstract Class 7m Defining an Interface 7m Deriving from System.Object 3m Deriving from a Base Class 5m Introduction 0m Refactoring Statistics 9m Setting up a Scenario 4m Summary 1m The Pillars of OOP 1m Using IDisposable 6m Writing Grades to a File 6m
Catching up with the Latest in C#
Introduction 0m Summary 0m Working with Non-nullable Reference Types 8m
Going Further with C#
Async C# 0m Effective C# 1m Generics 1m Introduction 0m LINQ 0m
Description
Course info
Rating
(561)
Level
Beginner
Updated
Apr 16, 2019
Duration
6h 4m
Description

C# has consistently been one of the top three programming languages to learn as it's used widely throughout the industry. This course, C# Fundamentals, will help you be comfortable with fundamental programming concepts on any platform. First, you will learn about the syntax of the C# language. Next, you will discover the built-in features of .NET. Finally, you will explore how to solve problems using object-oriented programming techniques. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge you need for real-world solutions.

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Scott Allen
About the author

Scott has over 15 years of experience in commercial software development and is a frequent speaker at national conferences, and local user groups. Scott is a Microsoft MVP and has authored books on several Microsoft technologies, including ASP.NET, C#, and Windows Workflow.

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Section Introduction Transcripts
Section Introduction Transcripts

Course Overview
Hi. This is Scott Allen, and welcome to C# Fundamentals. The goal of this course is to give you all the knowledge that you need to start being productive with the C# programming language. C# has consistently been one of the top three programming languages to learn because it's used widely in the industry and it's an expressive and powerful language. In this course, we're going to learn about the C# language, as well as the .NET Framework that you'll use when building software with C#. We are going to build a gradebook application to store grades from a class of students, and along the way we'll learn how to define classes and methods in C#, as well as learn essential topics like error handling. We'll also discuss object‑oriented programming with C#, and I'll give you a list of my best practices for the language before we leave the course. By the end of the course, you'll be ready to contribute to your own projects with C#, and you'll also be prepared to move on to some additional C# courses, covering features in more detail, like generics in C# and Language Integrated Query, or LINQ, with C#. Now, I do assume you already have a small amount of basic programming knowledge before you start this course, so hopefully you've already done some work with true and false and Boolean logic, and you've seen how to write a loop in some other language. If so, we're ready to start.

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