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Getting Started: C#

Get started with the C# programming language

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.

Curriculum

Welcome (2:51)

What will you learn in this course? (4:24)

Who is the course for and prerequisites (4:09)

Teaching style (3:19)

Programs and our roles as developers (4:49)

Code and compilation (8:30)

The Integrated Developer Environment (7:43)

Installing Visual Studio (5:48)

Our First Program (5:43)

Structure of a Program (5:42)

What are variables? (4:17)

Strings (10:22)

Integers (7:33)

Float & Double (5:56)

Boolean (8:13)

DateTime (5:42)

Casting & Parsing (8:17)

If Statements (15:45)

Ternary Operators (4:41)

Switch Statements and Expressions (10:06)

Arrays (10:55)

Lists (12:12)

Dictionaries (14:43)

While Loops (13:59)

For Loops (6:01)

Foreach Loops (10:21)

Simple Method (5:54)

Arguments (4:28)

Return Types (7:33)

Debugging and Exceptions (4:46)

Try Catch (8:41)

Intro to Object Oriented Programming (7:50)

Reference Types (13:21)

Fields & Properties (11:47)

Static vs Instances (10:14)

Constructors (16:44)

Demo Program (10:26)

Closing Thoughts & Thank You (3:21)

Course Info

Level:
Getting Started
Duration:
5h 7m
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About the Author

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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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