C# 5.0 all-in-one for dummies / by Bill Sempf, Chuck Sphar, and Stephen Randy Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sempf, Bill.

Contributor:

Sphar, Chuck.

Davis, Stephen Randy.

Series:

--For dummies

--For dummies. C# 5.0 all-in-one for dummies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

C# (Computer program language).

Object-oriented programming languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (843 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

800+ pages of top-notch coverage; perfect for learning the fundamentals of C#! C# is a complex programming language for building .NET-connected software for Microsoft Windows, cloud computing, the Web, and a wide range of devices. Today's developers use it to develop Azure and Windows Phone apps, and Android applications using Mono. Novice programmers can get up and running quickly on C# using this practical guide. Crammed with 800+ pages of information, this all-in-one book helps you quickly create a C# program while learning C# and object-oriented programming fundamentals, Windows

Contents:

C# 5.0 All-in-One For Dummies; About the Authors; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Introduction; What's New in C# 5.0; About This Book; What You Need in Order to Use This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; How to Use This Book; How This Book Is Organized; Icons Used in This Book; About This Book's Website; Where to Go from Here; Book I: The Basics of C# Programming; Chapter 1: Creating Your First C# Console Application; Getting a Handle on Computer Languages, C#, and .NET; Creating Your First Console Application; Making Your Console App Do Something

Reviewing Your Console ApplicationIntroducing the Toolbox Trick; Chapter 2: Living with Variability - Declaring Value-Type Variables; Declaring a Variable; What's an int?; Representing Fractions; Handling Floating-Point Variables; Using the Decimal Type: Is It an Integer or a Float?; Examining the bool Type: Is It Logical?; Checking Out Character Types; What's a Value Type?; Comparing string and char; Calculating Leap Years: DateTime; Declaring Numeric Constants; Changing Types: The Cast; Letting the C# Compiler Infer Data Types; Chapter 3: Pulling Strings

The Union Is Indivisible, and So Are StringsPerforming Common Operations on a String; Comparing Strings; What If I Want to Switch Case?; Looping through a String; Searching Strings; Getting Input from the Command Line; Controlling Output Manually; Formatting Your Strings Precisely; StringBuilder: Manipulating Strings More Efficiently; Chapter 4: Smooth Operators; Performing Arithmetic; Performing Logical Comparisons - Is That Logical?; Matching Expression Types at TrackDownAMate.com; Chapter 5: Getting into the Program Flow; Branching Out with if and switch; Here We Go Loop-the-Loop

Looping a Specified Number of Times with forNesting Loops; Don't goto Pieces; Chapter 6: Lining Up Your Ducks with Collections; The C# Array; A Loop Made for each Array; Sorting Arrays of Data; Using var for Arrays; Loosening Up with C# Collections; Understanding Collection Syntax; Using Lists; Using Dictionaries; Array and Collection Initializers; Using Sets; On Not Using Old-Fashioned Collections; Chapter 7: Stepping through Collections; Iterating through a Directory of Files; Iterating foreach Collections: Iterators; Accessing Collections the Array Way: Indexers

Looping Around the Iterator BlockChapter 8: Buying Generic; Writing a New Prescription: Generics; Classy Generics: Writing Your Own; Revising Generics; Chapter 9: Some Exceptional Exceptions; Using an Exceptional Error-Reporting Mechanism; Throwing Exceptions Yourself; Knowing What Exceptions Are For; Can I Get an Exceptional Example?; Assigning Multiple catch Blocks; Planning Your Exception-Handling Strategy; Grabbing Your Last Chance to Catch an Exception; Book II: Object-Oriented C# Programming; Contents at a Glance; Chapter 1: Object-Oriented Programming - What's It All About?

Object-Oriented Concept #1: Abstraction

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-118-60344-3

1-118-46205-X

OCLC:

827208170