ExpertRating Online C# Programming Course

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, computer scientists and database administrators held about 542,000 jobs in May 2006.

C# is a computer language which is available through international standards. This universal language is available on many operating systems including Microsoft Windows. C# includes the development of desktop and Internet applications which includes Windows Forms, ADO.NET, ASP.NET and Web Services. The benefits of C# games programming include automatic binding of game code to tools such as RDBMS and level editor and to scripting languages such as Lua.

You can create, compile and run C# programs with the help of Visual Studio 2008, write and understand C# language constructs syntax and semantics. The ExpertRating C# Programming Certification will help you master the skills required to design and create object-oriented applications for the Web.

ExpertRating Online C# Programming Course Coverage (6 weeks program)

Week One

Wednesday - Lesson 01

C# is a fantastic programming language that combines the best parts of C++, Java, and Visual Basic all into one language. In the first lesson, you'll get an idea of where they've come from by taking a look at a brief history of programming languages. This lesson will then explore the .NET framework and you’ll get a better feeling for what makes C# so special.

Friday - Lesson 02

Armed with some background, you'll now proceed to installing the C# compiler, and then you'll write, compile, and run your first C# program. Although you'll start with a small program, you'll see that even small C# programs can be a bit tricky. This lesson gives you a great opportunity to practice working with the compiler, something that you'll be using for the remainder of the course.

Week Two

Wednesday - Lesson 03

Now that you're comfortable with compiling and running simple programs, this lesson will take a look at math. Don't worry you won't be running calculations for launching the Space Shuttle. But you will be learning about the basic math operators that C# provides. And because you'll need some place to save the results of your calculations, this lesson will also talk about variables and their data types.

Friday - Lesson 04

This lesson is the first step into modular programming with methods. Methods are a helpful tool because they allow breaking up big programs into smaller, more manageable parts. This lesson will start by looking at a few built-in methods that are available for use in the programs. But then you'll learn how to write your own methods and call them in your program. Hopefully you'll agree that this way of programming makes it easier to tackle large problems

Week Three

Wednesday - Lesson 05-

Lesson 5 will continue building on the concept of methods by discussing methods that don't return any value. While these methods may not seem as important, they still help in making your program more modular. This lesson will also talk about method overloading, which can help improve the readability of your programs by reusing method names within the same code file.

Friday - Lesson 06

By this point in the course, you'll be comfortable doing the basics of C#: working with variables, math, and methods. So now this lesson will turn your attention to the first programming structure: decisions. In this lesson, you'll learn about the if statement and how you can use it to let the computer choose which set of statements to execute based on some condition.

Week Four

Wednesday - Lesson 07

Lesson 7 will continue its investigation of the decision structure by taking a look at more complex if statements. You'll also learn how to use the switch statement to make decisions in your programs as well. This ability to have multiple programming structures is sort of like having another tool in your tool belt. Sometimes a job is far easier to do if you just use the right tool. You may not always need to use every tool, but it's good to know what tools are there and how to use them. You'll find the same is true in programming.

Friday - Lesson 08

Keeping with the theme of programming structures, lesson 8 will now take a look at the repetition structure. Just as there were different ways to implement the decision structure, there are a couple of ways to work with loops. Specifically this lesson, will talk about the while loop, for loop, and the do loop. Each structure works the same in that they allow you to repeat statements, but each one is a little different. Here you'll learn their differences and add to the tools in your tool belt.

Week Five

Wednesday - Lesson 09

One of the most useful applications of loops is arrays, so it makes sense that this lesson builds on your knowledge of loops and explores array variables. You'll learn how to create and access array variables. You’ll also learn how to work with arrays and methods in this lesson.

Friday - Lesson 10

Object-oriented programming is a big topic, and C# is an object-oriented language. You'll spend some time in this lesson going over exactly what an object is and how it relates to a class. Then you'll write a class that will store the data necessary to keep track of the time. Since you're writing this class, you'll have the ability to take this code and add it to any program that needs to store information about the time, such as appointment books and scheduling programs.

Week Six

Wednesday - Lesson 11

Obviously, computer programs are big time savers and really help to automate things. But in order for a program to be really useful, it needs to be able to save data for use later. That's why you'll go over data files in this lesson. In this lesson, you'll learn how to read from and write to external data files so you can store your user data forever.

Friday - Lesson 12

The final lesson will look at programs with a Graphical User Interface (GUI). While C# has an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that gives you the ability to easily create GUI applications, the code that's generated is buried deep in the file structure. So to show you that there's no magic going on, this lesson will show you how to build your own GUI without an IDE. By doing this, you'll be far better prepared for working with IDEs in the future because you'll know exactly what's going on behind the scenes.

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