Head first C♯ /
This book covers C# & .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010, and teaches everything from inheritance to serialization.--[book cover].
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| Language: | English |
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Beijing ; Sebastopol, CA :
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2010.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Head first series.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro: your brain on C#
- Get productive with C#: Visual applications, in 10 minutes or less
- It's all just code: Under the hood
- Objects get oriented: Making code make sense
- Types and references: It's 10:00. Do you know where your data is?
- Encapsulation: Keep your privates...private
- Inheritance: Your object's family tree
- Interfaces and abstract classes: Making classes keep their promises
- Enums and collections: Storing lots of data
- Reading and writing files: Save the byte array, save the world
- Exception handling: Putting out fires gets old
- Events and delegates: What your code does when you're not looking
- Review and preview: Knowledge, power, and building cool stuff
- Controls and graphics: Make it pretty
- Captain Amazing: The death of the object
- LINQ: Get control of your data
- Leftovers: The top 11 things we wanted to include in this book
- Advance Praise for Head First C#
- Praise for other Head First books
- 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
- Safari® Books Online
- 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
- 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
- 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.
