.NET Object-Oriented Programming Using C♯

This weekly evening course covers all the major areas of Object-Oriented programming.

You will understand the nature of classes, objects, class libraries, inheritance, polymorphism and interfaces; by building a real-life application with a Windows front end.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Write object-oriented programs in C#
• Use Visual Studio .NET to create GUI Applications (Rapid Application Development)
• Use object-oriented methods to write more robust and more reusable applications
• Gain familiarity with the .NET framework and component-based programming methods.

Who is it for?

For those looking to create an application with the connectivity, look and feel of Microsoft Windows, this is the ideal course. It is aimed at students with some knowledge of procedural programming - for example 20 hours tuition in VB or VB.NET or C/C++. If you have no programming experience, you should first attend Java: Object-oriented programming with Java | Part 1. The syntactical similariti

• Introduction to C#. Why use C#?, Language comparison with C/C++, Java, VB.NET
• Overview of the .NET framework; using Visual Studio.NET
• C# fundamentals: Types, Variables, Constants, Expressions, Statements, Operators, Namespaces
• Classes and Objects: Defining Classes, Creating and Destroying Objects, Passing Parameters, Overloading, Encapsulation.
• Inheritance and Polymorphism: Specialization and Generalization, Inheritance, Polymorphism, Abstract Classes
• Interfaces: Implementation, Accessing Interface Methods, Overriding Interface Implementations
• Handling Exceptions: Throwing and Catching Exceptions, Exception Objects, Custom Exceptions, Rethrowing Exceptions
• Windows Programming: Building Windows Applications, Creating Simple Windows Forms and Windows Forms Applications.
• Text handling applications: Reading and Writing files, string manipulation, file management

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Write object-oriented programs in C#
• Use Visual Studio .NET to create GUI Applications (Rapid Application Development)
• Use object-oriented methods to write more robust and more reusable applications
• Gain familiarity with the .NET framework and component-based programming methods.

Formal assessment via a set project to be completed over the duration of the course.

Some knowledge of procedural programming required - for example 20 hours tuition in VB or VB.NET or C/C++.

If you have no programming experience, you should first attend Java: Object-oriented programming with Java | Part 1. The syntactical similarities between C# and Java make an introductory Java course more than adequate for a course of study in C#.

English requirements

You will need a good level of spoken and written English to enrol on this course.

Beginning Visual C# 2012 Programming. Wrox (2012), Karli Wilson et al.