Beginners Guide To C# With Visual Studio 2017

Learn Real C# with Windows Forms!

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Created by: Miles Turnbull

What Will I Learn?

• Create and run a simple Windows Form project
• Describe how properties are used to control the appearance of forms
• Add objects such as labels to forms, and write code to change the text of the label
• Understand why variables are needed and how they operate
• Describe how data types must match for code to work
• Understand the purpose of a name space and how it makes creating programs easier
• Use different data types like bool, string, decimal and int
• Understand the concept of a literal
• Use pictures boxes to show images
• Understand how string interpolation works
• Understand how to print new line characters
• Learn how to use text boxes and rich text boxes
• Describe how to connect multiple controls with code
• Work with multiple numerical variables and produce numerical output
• Apply format specifiers to produce formatted output
• Describe how to declare and set multiple variables on a single line to save time and effort when coding
• Read text values and convert them to numerical form
• Describe how methods are called to perform a variety of actions
• Create a simple graphical user interface
• Describe the importance of ensuring that data types are matched when using the assignment operator
• To call multiple methods on a single object using method chaining
• Explain in detail the concept of variable scope
• Explain how DateTime objects are created and used
• Explain the concept of variable scope
• Understand how to start a Visual Studio project in several ways
• Understand how to work with compound operators that represent addition and subtraction
• Describe how the compound division and multiplication operators work
• Use the numeric up/down control and understand the remainder operator
• Explain logical operators like =
• Describe how to work with check boxes in an interface
• Explain how the logical and operator works
• Understand how the logical or operator works
• Make comparisons using if/else and strings
• Make comparisons using if/else and numerical quantities
• Use methods with if/else blocks to make decisions
• Use if/else blocks with check boxes to make decisions
• Understand the concept of a literal

Requirements

• Please be sure to watch the free preview videos before enrolling so you can feel confident this course meets your needs.
• This course is for those who believe in doing, and not merely watching, in order to learn.
• You should be able to download and install Visual Studio 2017 Community.
• There are questions in the videos about the code, so it's important to type all the code as you watch the videos.
• This is a course for committed beginners. It's not for those who don't want to push themselves hard.

Target audience

• This is a course for beginners in C# and Visual Studio Community 2017.
• This is not a course for those who are intermediate or advanced students of C#.
• This course does not use console applications to teach C#.
• This course uses Windows Forms to teach the fundamentals of C#.