A 16 Hour C# Course With Microsoft Visual Studio 2013

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Learning The Fundamentals

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Configuring the Layout of Visual Studio

Lecture 3: Create and Run A Simple Program

Lecture 4: Blocks, Nested Blocks, and Multiline Comments

Lecture 5: Using Format Specifiers To Create More Professional Output

Lecture 6: Creating One Variable And Watching It Change

Lecture 7: Describing An Object With Different Data Types

Lecture 8: Combining Variables Using Addition, Division And Subtraction

Lecture 9: Understanding Division of Doubles And Integers

Lecture 10: Understanding How To Use The Remainder Operator

Lecture 11: Interacting With Users Through The Command Prompt

Lecture 12: Reading Input From Users By Using Data Casting

Lecture 13: Creating And Using Constants To Represent Unchanging Quantities

Chapter 2: Controlling Program Flow

Lecture 1: Reacting To A Simple Condition With If Blocks

Lecture 2: Checking Simple Conditions With If/Else Blocks

Lecture 3: Making A Variable Grow By Adding One

Lecture 4: Repeating Blocks Of Code With While Loops

Lecture 5: If/Else Blocks with Multiple Options

Lecture 6: Examining Multiple Options With Switch Blocks

Lecture 7: Repeating Blocks Of Code With For Loops

Lecture 8: Examining The Items In A Collection By Using ForEach Loops

Lecture 9: Collecting Input At Least Once With Do/While Loops

Lecture 10: Performing An Action Until A User Wants To Quit

Chapter 3: Operators

Lecture 1: Ensuring Two Conditions Are True With The Logical And Operator

Lecture 2: Ensuring At Least One Of Two Conditions Is True With The Or Operator

Lecture 3: Compound Operators That Evaluate and Assign

Lecture 4: Reversing Truth Values With The Logical Negation Operator

Lecture 5: Replacing If/Else Blocks With The Ternary Operator

Lecture 6: Combining Logical Operators To Write More Powerful Code

Chapter 4: Arrays and Methods

Lecture 1: Breaking Programs Into Smaller Pieces With Methods

Lecture 2: Creating A Method That Accepts And Returns A Value

Lecture 3: Creating And Using Arrays To Store Data

Lecture 4: Operating On Arrays With For And ForEach Loops

Lecture 5: Understanding Reference Type And Value Type Variables

Lecture 6: Using The Ref Keyword To Allow Methods To Set Mutliple Values

Lecture 7: Using Out Parameters To Allow Methods To Set Multiple Values

Lecture 8: Holding Tabular Information With Multidimensional Arrays

Lecture 9: Storing Information In Jagged Arrays

Lecture 10: Writing More Flexible Methods With The Params Keyword

Lecture 11: Using the TryParse Method To Write More Powerful Code

Chapter 5: Fundamentals of Objected Oriented Programming

Lecture 1: Create A Simple Class With A Constructor

Lecture 2: Create A Class With A Constructor And A Method

Lecture 3: Create A Class With A Method And A Property

Lecture 4: Create A Class With A Static Field And Static Property

Lecture 5: Create A Static Class To Represent A Concept With Operations

Lecture 6: Creating A Simple Inheritance Hierarchy To Write Less Code

Lecture 7: Creating and Using Virtual Methods To Write Less Code

Lecture 8: Dynamic Data Typing

Lecture 9: Difference Between Dynamic and Var.

Lecture 10: Abstract Classes, and Methods

Lecture 11: Improving On Arrays With Lists

Lecture 12: Using Polymorphism To Write Less Code

Lecture 13: Using Custom Types as Parameter Data Types

Lecture 14: Overloading Operators To Make Operating On Custom Types Easier

Lecture 15: Calling Multiple Methods With Delegates

Lecture 16: Chaining Functions Together With Actions

Lecture 17: Responding To Events With Delegates

Lecture 18: Expressing the "Can Be Used As" A Relationship With Interfaces

Lecture 19: Creating Reusable Code With Generic Interfaces

Lecture 20: Controlling Access To Code With Access Modifiers

Lecture 21: Cleaning Strings

Lecture 22: Events With Simple Forms and Partial Classes

Chapter 6: Error Handling

Lecture 1: Try-Catch-Finally Blocks In Graphical Apps

Lecture 2: Multiple Catch Blocks

Chapter 7: Transition from console programs to graphical windows

Lecture 1: Adding a Class To Represent Points

Lecture 2: Designing The User Interface, And Applying String Functions

Chapter 8: Miscellaneous Topics

Lecture 1: Turning Objects Into Arrays With Indexers

Lecture 2: Writing And Reading Files, Very Simple Example

Lecture 3: Controlling Low Level Access With Using Statements

Lecture 4: Reading and Writing Files, Graphical Example

Lecture 5: Conditional Functions

Lecture 6: Nullable Data Types, and Named Parameters

Lecture 7: Create a Dynamic Link Library and Reference It

Lecture 8: Display All the Files and Folders in A Directory

Lecture 9: Fully Qualified Names

Lecture 10: Build a Simple Web Browser

Chapter 9: Modern Language Features

Lecture 1: Create and Use A Generic Class

Lecture 2: List<T> With Predefined Types and ForEach

Lecture 3: Build A Custom Type Database With Generics

Lecture 4: Using Generic Dictionaries, and A Project

Lecture 5: Lambda Expressions,and Lambda Statements

Lecture 6: Func<> Notation For Lambda Expressions, and Dynamic Variables

Chapter 10: Database and LINQ Basics

Lecture 1: Download and Install SQL Server 2014 Express

Lecture 2: Write Code for Connecting to Databases

Lecture 3: Search Through Generic Lists With Linq

Lecture 4: Using Lambda Expressions in Linq Queries

Lecture 5: Use LINQ with XML

Lecture 6: Use Linq To Search For Words In A Graphical Application

Chapter 11: WPF Basics