C# Fundamentals

Start developing C# applications.

Description

This course is designed for participants who want to learn the essentials of C# and .NET. The course covers the core concepts needed to start building applications with C#, focusing on practical examples and hands-on exercises.

Learning Goals

• Implement console applications with input/output and debugging skills [Apply]
• Apply data types, type conversions, and use value and reference types appropriatly [Apply]
• Use operators and control flow statements effectively [Apply]
• Implement methods with parameters, return values, and overloading [Apply]
• Use arrays, lists and dictionaries to manage collections [Apply]
• Implement classes with fields, properties, methods, access modifiers, constructors and static members [Apply]
• Handle exceptions [Apply]
• Explain the use and value of inheritance [Understand]
• Apply Reading from and saving to file [Apply]

Subjects

• Compiler, CLR, IL
• Project structure and solution files

• Visual Studio IDE essentials
• Console input/output
• Debugging Basics

• Value types, reference types and strings
• Type casting and parsing
• ref and out parameters

• Arithmetic, assignment, increment/decrement operators
• Comparison, logical, ternary, compound operators, short circuiting
• is operator (basic pattern matching)
• Control flow: if, switch, for, foreach, while, do while

• Methods, parameters, return values
• Default parameters
• Overloading methods

• Arrays
• Lists

• Organizing code with namespaces
• Fields, properties (auto-implemented and backing fields)
• Object Initializers
• Access modifiers: public, private

• Default and parameterized constructors

• Association, aggregation and composition
• Inheritance

• Static classes and members

• Using try, catch, finally
• Throwing exceptions (throw)

• Reading from a file
• Writing to a file