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    • Hands-On: C# for Beginners

    Learn C# from scratch by completing practical exercises, writing real C# code.

    About This Course

    Learning C# by just reading about it is not enough. You need to get your hands dirty and write some real-world code to solve real-world problems. In this 21+ hour course, you will complete more than 220 practical exercises using Dometrain’s state-of-the-art web Code Editor, starting from the very basics all the way to intermediate and advanced features. This course assumes you have some basic understanding of programming, but you don’t know C# at all. At Dometrain, we want to be the best place for developers to learn programming languages and concepts from scratch, so we are offering this course completely free, with lifetime access. Whether you are just starting out or you want to flesh out your skills, you can take this course and make sure your C# engineering knowledge is up to date.

    Course Curriculum

    20h 51m 26 sections
    Console printing
    05:00
    Console.Write
    05:00
    Console.ReadLine
    05:00
    Single line comments
    05:00
    Multi line comments
    05:00
    Variables
    05:00
    Constants
    05:00
    The var keyword
    05:00
    Integers
    05:00
    Doubles
    05:00
    Decimals
    05:00
    Strings
    05:00
    Escape Sequences
    05:00
    Verbatim Strings
    05:00
    String concatenation
    05:00
    String interpolation
    05:00
    Chars
    05:00
    Booleans
    05:00
    Floats
    06:00
    Addition
    05:00
    Subtraction
    05:00
    Multiplication
    05:00
    Division
    05:00
    The Modulo operator
    05:00
    Order of operations
    05:00
    Compound assignment operators
    05:00
    Increment and Decrement
    05:00
    Comparison operators
    07:30
    Logical AND
    05:00
    Logical OR
    05:00
    Logical NOT
    05:00
    If statements
    05:00
    If-Else statements
    05:00
    Else-If chains
    05:00
    Logical patterns
    05:00
    Switch statements
    05:00
    Switch expressions
    05:00
    The Ternary operator
    05:00
    While Loops
    05:00
    Avoiding Infinite Loops
    05:00
    Do-While Loops
    05:00
    For Loops
    05:00
    For Loop Counting Down
    05:00
    For-Each Loops
    05:00
    The break statement
    05:00
    The continue statement
    05:00
    Nested Loops
    05:00
    Defining void methods
    05:00
    Method parameters
    05:00
    Return values
    05:00
    Using return values
    05:00
    Method overloading
    05:00
    Optional parameters
    05:00
    Named arguments
    05:00
    Params arguments
    05:00
    ref Parameters
    06:40
    out Parameters
    06:40
    in Parameters
    06:40
    Creating Arrays
    05:00
    Array Initializer Syntax
    05:00
    Modifying Array Elements
    05:00
    Looping Arrays with for
    05:00
    Looping Arrays with foreach
    05:00
    Multi-Dimensional Arrays
    05:00
    Jagged Arrays
    06:00
    Ranges and Indices
    06:40
    Creating Lists
    05:00
    Adding to Lists
    05:00
    Accessing List Elements
    05:00
    Removing from Lists
    05:00
    Checking List Contents
    05:00
    Sorting Lists
    05:00
    Creating Dictionaries
    05:00
    Adding and Accessing Dictionary Items
    05:00
    Checking Dictionary Keys
    05:00
    Looping Through Dictionaries
    05:00
    Defining a Class
    05:00
    Fields
    05:00
    Default Constructors
    05:00
    Parameterized Constructors
    05:00
    Constructor Overloading
    07:30
    Properties
    05:00
    Auto-Properties
    06:40
    Read-Only Properties
    05:00
    Private Set Properties
    07:30
    The this Keyword
    07:30
    Public Access Modifier
    06:40
    Private Access Modifier
    07:30
    Static Fields
    05:50
    The static keyword
    06:00
    Static Methods
    06:40
    Inheritance Basics
    06:40
    The base Keyword
    06:40
    Virtual Methods
    08:20
    Method Overriding
    06:40
    Abstract Classes
    06:40
    Abstract Methods
    06:40
    Defining Interfaces
    06:40
    Implementing Interfaces
    07:30
    Multiple Interfaces
    06:40
    Default interface methods
    06:40
    Defining Structs
    05:00
    Value Type Behavior
    05:50
    Defining Enums
    05:50
    Enum Values
    05:50
    Enums in Switch
    05:50
    Defining Records
    05:50
    Record With Expressions
    06:40
    Try-Catch Blocks
    06:00
    Exception Messages
    06:00
    Multiple Catch Blocks
    06:00
    The Finally Block
    06:00
    Throwing Exceptions
    06:00
    Custom Exception Messages
    06:00
    Generic Classes
    06:40
    Using Generic Classes
    06:40
    Generic Methods
    06:40
    Generic Constraints
    06:00
    Defining Delegates
    06:00
    Using Delegates
    06:00
    Action Delegates
    06:00
    Func Delegates
    06:00
    Lambda Expression Basics
    06:00
    Lambda with Multiple Statements
    06:00
    Events
    06:40
    Subscribing to Events
    06:40
    Introduction to LINQ
    05:00
    LINQ Query Syntax
    06:40
    Where for Filtering
    06:00
    Select for Transforming
    06:00
    OrderBy for Sorting
    06:00
    ThenBy for Secondary Sorting
    06:00
    Count and Sum
    06:00
    Average, Min, and Max
    06:40
    First and FirstOrDefault
    06:00
    Single and SingleOrDefault
    06:00
    Any and All
    06:00
    Async and Await
    06:40
    Returning Values from Async
    06:40
    Task.WhenAll
    06:00
    Task.WhenAny
    06:00
    ToUpper and ToLower
    06:00
    Trim
    05:00
    Substring
    05:00
    Replace
    05:00
    Split
    05:00
    Join
    05:00
    Contains and IndexOf
    06:00
    StartsWith and EndsWith
    06:00
    String Comparisons
    07:30
    Format Specifiers
    06:00
    Interpolation Format
    06:00
    StringBuilder
    05:00
    DateTime Basics
    05:00
    Creating DateTime Values
    05:00
    Formatting Dates
    06:40
    Parsing Dates
    06:40
    Date Arithmetic
    06:40
    TimeSpan Basics
    06:40
    Comparing Dates
    05:00
    DateOnly Basics
    06:00
    TimeOnly Basics
    06:40
    Nullable Value Types
    05:00
    The Null-Coalescing Operator
    05:00
    Nullable Reference Types
    06:00
    The Null-Conditional Operator
    05:00
    The Null-Forgiving Operator
    05:00
    Type Checking with is
    06:00
    Type Patterns with Variables
    05:00
    Switch with Type Patterns
    06:00
    Property Patterns
    06:00
    Relational Patterns
    06:00
    Switch Expressions
    06:00
    When Guards
    06:00
    Creating Tuples
    06:00
    Named Tuple Elements
    05:00
    Returning Tuples from Methods
    05:00
    Tuple Deconstruction
    06:00
    Anonymous Types
    05:00
    Extension Methods
    06:00
    Understanding Attributes
    06:00
    Creating Custom Attributes
    06:40
    The using Statement
    08:20
    Init-Only Properties
    06:00
    Required Properties
    06:00
    Raw String Literals
    06:00
    Collection Expression Syntax
    06:00
    Spread Operator in Collections
    06:00
    Primary Constructors
    06:00
    Implicit Conversion
    06:00
    Explicit Conversion (Casting)
    05:00
    The Convert Class
    05:00
    Parse Methods
    05:00
    TryParse Methods
    05:00
    Checked Arithmetic
    06:00
    Unchecked Arithmetic
    05:00
    Writing Text Files
    05:00
    Reading Text Files
    06:00
    File Lines
    06:00
    Checking File Existence
    05:00
    Path Manipulation
    04:55
    JSON Serialization
    06:00
    JSON Deserialization
    05:00
    Introduction to HttpClient
    06:40
    Making GET Requests
    06:00
    HttpResponseMessage
    08:20
    Checking Status Codes
    06:00
    Using BaseAddress
    05:00
    Making POST Requests
    06:00
    Sending JSON with POST
    06:40
    Deserializing JSON Responses
    06:00
    Setting Request Headers
    06:00
    Handling HTTP Errors
    06:40
    PUT and DELETE Requests
    06:00
    Async HTTP Operations
    08:20
    Params Collections
    04:58
    The Lock Type
    06:00
    Partial Properties
    06:00
    The field Keyword
    06:00

    Course Details

    Level Hands-On
    Duration 20h 51m
    Rating
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    Meet Your Instructor

    Nick Chapsas

    Nick Chapsas

    Nick Chapsas is a .NET & C# content creator, educator and a Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies with years of experience in Software Engineering and Engineering Management.

    He has worked for some of the biggest companies in the world, building systems that served millions of users and tens of thousands of requests per second.

    Nick creates free content on YouTube and is the host of the Keep Coding Podcast.

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