C# for Beginners – Coding From Scratch

Everything you need to get going with C# and .NET using Visual Studio

Created by: Pontus Wittenmark
.NET Instructor

What Will I Learn?

• A good understanding of the most important aspects of the C# language and use it to create programs
• The fundamentals of the C# language and .NET Core
• The syntax and structure of a C# program
• Important keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio
• Work with local variables and fields (class variables)
• How to create and call methods, provide arguments, handling return types and tuples
• Working with if and switch statements, conditional operators
• Working with the for, while, do while and for each loop
• Creating and indexing arrays
• Use generic collections such as List, Stack, Queue and Dictionary
• Work with classes and objects, static members and access modifiers such as private, protected and public
• Work with properties (automatic, full, read-only etc)
• Read and write text files to disk
• Throw, catch and handle exceptions
• How to work with reference types and value types
• How C# relates to Common Intermediate Language (CIL), JIT compilation and native code
• Deploying .NET Core console applications

Requirements

• Visual Studio Community (Free)

Target audience

• People who are new to C# (or new to programming in general)
• People who needs to refresh their knowledge of C#
• Anyone looking to get into the C# language and .NET Core