Getting Started: C#

Get started with the C# programming language

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 7m 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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