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  • Getting Started: C#

    Get started with C# programming in this comprehensive course, perfect for beginners or those transitioning from other languages. Learn key concepts like variables, loops, OOP, and debugging in C#.

    About This Course

    Whether you have no programming experience or already know a different programming language and want to learn C#, this course is for you. In this course, Principal Engineering Manager Nick Cosentino will teach you everything you need to know to start with programming and C#. C# is one of the most popular programming languages, with millions of lines of code powering some of the most used websites, services and tools. From Office to Azure, our lives wouldn't be the same without C#. This is your chance to build your programming knowledge on the solid foundation powered by Microsoft themselves.

    Course Curriculum

    5h 8m 12 sections
    Welcome
    02:50 Free preview
    What will you learn in this course?
    04:24 Free preview
    Who is the course for and prerequisites
    04:09 Free preview
    Teaching Style
    03:19 Free preview
    Programs and our roles as developers
    04:49
    Code and compilation
    08:30
    The Integrated Developer Environment
    07:42
    Installing Visual Studio
    05:48
    Our First Program
    05:43
    Structure of a Program
    05:42
    What are variables?
    04:17
    Strings
    10:22
    Integers
    07:33
    Float & Double
    05:56
    Boolean
    08:12
    DateTime
    05:42
    Casting & Parsing
    08:16
    If Statements
    15:45
    Ternary Operators
    04:41
    Switch Statements and Expressions
    10:06
    Arrays
    10:55
    Lists
    12:12
    Dictionaries
    14:43
    While Loops
    13:59
    For Loops
    06:00
    Foreach Loops
    10:21
    Simple Method
    05:54
    Arguments
    04:28
    Return Types
    07:33
    Debugging and Exceptions
    04:46
    Try Catch
    08:41
    Intro to Object Oriented Programming
    07:50
    Reference Types
    13:21
    Fields & Properties
    11:47
    Static vs Instances
    10:14
    Constructors
    16:44
    Demo Program
    10:26
    Course conclusion
    03:21

    Meet Your Instructor

    Nick Cosentino

    Nick Cosentino

    Nick Cosentino is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft and a .NET content creator. He manages the teams responsible for deploying the hundreds of services supporting the Microsoft365 suite of products to serve users across the planet. Nick brings his unique experiences to the Big Tech world having worked at a startup that scaled from a handful of employees to hundreds before it went public.

    Nick runs a software engineering and dotnet-focused blog as well as a YouTube channel called Dev Leader. While he enjoys solving complex problems with software solutions, Nick is passionate about reducing barriers for people to get started on their software engineering journey.

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