Introduction to Visual C#

Course Outline

An Introduction to C#
Series: C#
Weeks: 8
Cost: $200
CEU Credits: 3.0

Overview:

C# is an industry tool of choice for software development in today's corporate environment. This 8 week course is for aspiring programmers who have had no previous exposure to programming, and would like to be able to write their own C# programs. Experienced programmers are welcome also!

Objectives:

To examine Microsoft Windows behavior
To become comfortable with the C# IDE
To learn what a C# property is
To learn some of the major properties of a C# Form
To learn what a C# method is
To learn what a C# event is
To learn the major controls contained in the C# toolbox
To learn 'where' program code in a C# program is written
To learn the importance of Data in a computer programmer
To learn what a variable and a constant is
To learn the C# Data types
To learn what operations can be performed on C# data
To learn what a C# Selection structure is
To learn the C# If statement
To learn the C# Case Statement
To learn what a loop is and why it's important in your program
To learn what a For...Next Loop is used for
To learn about the family of Do...Loops
To learn what String Manipulation means and what it can be used for
To learn basic File Manipulation Operations in C#
To learn how to create a menu in C#
To learn how to create an Array in C#
To learn the difference between a one-dimensional and a multi-dimensional array
To learn how to enable Error Handling in a C# program
To learn how to read from, and write to, the Windows Registry

Prerequisites:

No prerequisites.

Requirements:

TEXTBOOKS:

Learn to Program with Visual C# 2005 Express, by John Smiley

SOFTWARE:

Any version of Visual C#

Table of Contents

Week 1:	Getting Started, What is a Computer Program, Getting Comfortable with C#
Programming the Easy Way The Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) What is a Computer? What makes a computer program run. An In-depth Look at Windows The C# Environment The C# IDE The C# Toolbox
Week 2:	Programming is Easy, Building the User Interface
Less is Best C# Properties, Methods, and Events C# Controls
Week 3:	A First Look At Coding
The old days... Event Driving Programming Writing Code Program Comments A C# Code Overview The C# Debugger
Week 4:	Data, Selection Structures
Computer Data Variables and Constants Variable Declaration Operations on Data Selection Structures The If...Then Statement The Case Statement
Week 5:	Loops
What's a Loop For...Next Loops Do...Loops
Week 6:	String Manipulation, File Operations
What is a String? String Concatenation Breaking Strings Apart Disk File Operations Writing Data to a Disk File Reading Data from a Disk File
Week 7:	Finishing the User Interface, Arrays
Drop-Down Menus The MsgBox Function What's an Array Declaring and Initializing an Array Static and Dynamic Arrays Adding Data to an Array Single and Multidimensional Arrays
Week 8:	Error Handling, Customizing Your Program
Common Beginner Errors Runtime Errors/Logic Errors C# Error Handling Writing to the Windows Registry Reading from the Windows Registry Creating Custom Sub Procedures

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