C# Software Development for Absolute Beginners

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Is This The C# Course For You?

Lecture 2: About The Instructor

Lecture 3: What is C#? and Why Learn C#?

Lecture 4: Downloading and Installing Visual Studio (C# IDE)

Chapter 2: The Basics

Lecture 1: Hello World (Mr. Beast Logo)

Lecture 2: Variables

Lecture 3: Data Types

Lecture 4: C# – A Strongly Statically Typed Language

Lecture 5: Working with Strings and Substrings

Lecture 6: Working with Numbers

Lecture 7: Getting User Input

Lecture 8: EXERCISE – The Number Multiplier

Chapter 3: Methods

Lecture 1: Methods

Lecture 2: Method Parameters

Lecture 3: Method Returns

Lecture 4: Method Overloading

Chapter 4: Comments and XML Summary Tags

Lecture 1: Comments and XML Summary Tags

Chapter 5: Conditions and Operators

Lecture 1: If and Else Statements

Lecture 2: Else If Statements

Lecture 3: Equality and Inequality Operators

Lecture 4: Comparison Operators

Lecture 5: Boolean Operators

Lecture 6: EXERCISE – Building a Calculator

Lecture 7: Switch Statements

Lecture 8: Conditional Operators

Chapter 6: Arrays

Lecture 1: Arrays

Chapter 7: Loops and Iteration

Lecture 1: While Loops

Lecture 2: Do While Loops

Lecture 3: For Loops

Lecture 4: For Loops vs While Loops

Lecture 5: Foreach Loops

Lecture 6: EXERCISE – Draw a Cube

Chapter 8: Control Flow

Lecture 1: The break Statement

Lecture 2: The continue Statement

Chapter 9: Misc Learning

Lecture 1: Exception Handling (try, catch, finally)

Lecture 2: 2D, 3D and Multidimensional Arrays

Lecture 3: EXERCISE – Chess – Find the Queen

Lecture 4: Lists

Chapter 10: Object Orientating Programming (O-O)

Lecture 1: O-O, Classes and Objects

Lecture 2: Constructors

Lecture 3: Object Methods

Lecture 4: Access Modifiers (public, private, etc)

Lecture 5: Properties

Lecture 6: Inheritance

Lecture 7: Method Overriding (Polymorphism)

Lecture 8: Multilevel Inheritance

Lecture 9: The sealed Keyword

Lecture 10: Abstract Classes and Abstract Methods

Lecture 11: The this Keyword

Lecture 12: The base Keyword and base Class Constructors

Lecture 13: Interfaces

Lecture 14: O-O Summary

Chapter 11: Misc Learning 2

Lecture 1: EXERCISE – Drawing Pyramids

Lecture 2: Solutions, Multiple Projects and Namespaces

Chapter 12: Debugging

Lecture 1: Breakpoints and Code Stepping (Also: Run to Click and Run to Cursor)

Lecture 2: Immediate Window

Lecture 3: Locals and Autos Windows

Lecture 4: Watch Windows and Quick Watch

Chapter 13: Misc Learning 3

Lecture 1: The protected Access Modifier

Lecture 2: The static Keyword

Chapter 14: Immutable Data Types

Lecture 1: The readonly Keyword

Lecture 2: The const Keyword

Chapter 15: The Stack and Heap

Lecture 1: Stack and Heap Memory (Stack Overflow and the Call Stack)

Lecture 2: Method Parameters – Passing by Value

Lecture 3: Method Parameters – Passing by Reference (The ref Keyword)

Chapter 16: Structures

Lecture 1: The struct Keyword

Chapter 17: Objects, Dynamic and Anonymous

Lecture 1: The object Data Type – Boxing and Unboxing

Lecture 2: The dynamic keyword and Dynamic Type Checking

Lecture 3: The var Keyword and Type Inference

Lecture 4: Anonymous Types

Chapter 18: null

Lecture 1: The null Keyword

Lecture 2: Nullable Value Types

Lecture 3: The null-coalescing Operators

Chapter 19: Method Parameters

Lecture 1: Named and Optional Parameters

Lecture 2: The out Keyword

Lecture 3: The in Keyword

Lecture 4: The params Keyword

Chapter 20: Misc Learning 4

Lecture 1: Enumerations – The enum Type

Lecture 2: Recursion and File Handling (File.IO)

Chapter 21: Final Project