The C# Book is used by the Department of Computer Science in the University of Hullas the basis of the First Year programming course.

The C# Book is used by the Department of Computer Science in the University of Hullas the basis of the First Year programming course.

[...]In this book I’m going to give you a smattering of the C# programming language. If you have programmed before I’d be grateful if you’d still read the text. It is worth it just for the jokes and you may actually learn something.”[...]

Contents

Introduction
Welcome ............................................................................................................................. 5
Reading the notes ................................................................................................................ 5
Getting a copy of the notes ................................................................................................. 5
1 Computers and Programs
1.1 Computers ............................................................................................................ 6
1.2 Programs and Programming ................................................................................. 8
1.3 Programming Languages .................................................................................... 13
1.4 C# ....................................................................................................................... 14
2 Simple Data Processing
2.1 A First C# Program ............................................................................................ 18
2.2 Manipulating Data .............................................................................................. 26
2.3 Writing a Program .............................................................................................. 37
3 Creating Programs
3.1 Methods .............................................................................................................. 52
3.2 Variables and Scope ........................................................................................... 58
3.3 Arrays ................................................................................................................. 61
3.4 Exceptions and Errors......................................................................................... 65
3.5 The Switch Construction .................................................................................... 68
3.6 Using Files .......................................................................................................... 71
4 Creating Solutions
4.1 Our Case Study: Friendly Bank .......................................................................... 76
4.2 Enumerated Types .............................................................................................. 76
4.3 Structures ............................................................................................................ 79
4.4 Objects, Structures and References .................................................................... 82
4.5 Designing With Objects ..................................................................................... 89
4.6 Static Items ......................................................................................................... 94
4.7 The Construction of Objects ............................................................................... 98
4.8 From Object to Component .............................................................................. 104
4.9 Inheritance ........................................................................................................ 109
4.10 Object Etiquette ................................................................................................ 119
4.11 The power of strings and chars ......................................................................... 124
4.12 Properties .......................................................................................................... 126
4.13 Building a Bank ................................................................................................ 129
5 Advanced Programming
5.1 Generics and Collections .................................................................................. 134
5.2 Storing Business Objects .................................................................................. 138
5.3 Business Objects and Editing ........................................................................... 148
5.4 A Graphical User Interface ............................................................................... 153
5.5 Using Delegates ................................................................................................ 162
5.6 Threads and Threading ..................................................................................... 163
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5.7 Structured Error Handling ................................................................................ 171
5.8 Program Organisation ....................................................................................... 174
5.9 Debugging ........................................................................................................ 180
5.10 The End? .......................................................................................................... 183
6 Glossary of Terms

© Rob Miles 2011 Department of Computer Science, The University of Hull.
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