Head first C# / Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stellman, Andrew, author.

Greene, Jennifer, 1971- author.

Series:

Head first series. Head first C#

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microsoft Visual C# .NET.

C# (Computer program language).

Computer programming.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (798 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Head first C sharp

Place of Publication:

Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

You want to learn C# programming, but you're not sure you want to suffer through another tedious technical book. You're in luck: Head First C# introduces this language in a fun, visual way. You'll quickly learn everything from creating your first program to learning sophisticated coding skills with C# 4.0, Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4, while avoiding common errors that frustrate many students. The second edition offers several hands-on labs along the way to help you build and test programs using skills you've learned up to that point. In the final lab, you'll put everythi

Contents:

Advance Praise for Head First C#; Praise for other Head First books; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; How to Use this Book: Intro; Who is this book for?; Who should probably back away from this book?; We know what you're thinking.; And we know what your brain is thinking.; Metacognition: thinking about thinking; Here's what WE did:; Here's what YOU can do to bend your brain into submission; What you need for this book:; Read me; The technical review team; Acknowledgments; Safari® Books Online; Chapter 1: Get Productive With C#: Visual Applications, in 10 Minutes or Less

Why you should learn C#C# and the Visual Studio IDE make lots of things easy; Help the CEO go paperless; Get to know your users' needs before you start building your program; Here's what you're going to build; What you do in Visual Studio...; What Visual Studio does for you...; Develop the user interface; Visual Studio, behind the scenes; Add to the auto-generated code; You can already run your application; Where are my files?; Here's what we've done so far; We need a database to store our information; The IDE created a database; SQL is its own language

Creating the table for the Contact ListThe blanks on the contact card are columns in our People table; Finish building the table; Insert your card data into the database; Connect your form to your database objects with a data source; Add database-driven controls to your form; Good programs are intuitive to use; Test drive; How to turn YOUR application into EVERYONE'S application; Give your users the application; You're NOT done: test your installation; You've built a complete data-driven application; Chapter 2: It's All Just Code: Under the Hood; When you're doing this...

...the IDE does thisWhere programs come from; The IDE helps you code; When you change things in the IDE, you're also changing your code; Anatomy of a program; Your program knows where to start; You can change your program's entry point; Two classes can be in the same namespace; Your programs use variables to work with data; C# uses familiar math symbols; Use the debugger to see your variables change; Loops perform an action over and over; Time to start coding; if/else statements make decisions; Set up conditions and see if they're true; Code Magnets; Csharpcross; Code Magnets Solution

Chapter 3: Objects: Get Oriented!: Making Code Make SenseHow Mike thinks about his problems; How Mike's car navigation system thinks about his problems; Mike's Navigator class has methods to set and modify routes; Use what you've learned to build a program that uses a class; Mike gets an idea; Mike can use objects to solve his problem; You use a class to build an object; When you create a new object from a class, it's called an instance of that class; A better solution...brought to you by objects!; An instance uses fields to keep track of things; Let's create some instances!

Thanks for the memory

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 1, 2013).

ISBN:

9781491914755

1491914750

9781449380359

1449380352

9781449391249

1449391249

9780596800734

0596800738

OCLC:

767498001