C# Programming for MS .NET - Part 2: Fundamental Constructs

Audience

The intended audience for this course are individuals involved in programming in C C++ Microsoft Visual Basic or Java and wish to program in C#. They are involved in developing enterprise business solutions. The audience will include application developers system analysts and software engineers. It is expected that learners should have experience programming in C C++ Visual Basic Java or another programming language. Learners should also have basic familiarity with the .NET framework and the .NET strategy. In addition learners should have taken the first part of this series (72711).

Objective

• Identify characteristics of statements.
• Identify the syntax used to create an if statement.
• Identify the syntax of cascading if statements.
• Identify the syntax used to define a method.
• Identify the syntax used to call a method.
• Identify the syntax used to declare local variables in methods.
• Identify characteristics of an array.
• Identify the syntax used to access an array element.
• Identify guidelines for using an array.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Statements and Exceptions

• Identify characteristics of statements.
• Identify the syntax used to create an if statement.
• Identify the syntax of cascading if statements.
• Identify the syntax of switch statements.
• Identify the syntax used to create a while statement.
• Identify the syntax of a do statement.
• Identify the syntax used to create a for statement.
• Identify the syntax of a for each statement.
• Control the flow of execution by using if switch and foreach statements.
• Identify characteristics of a goto statement.
• Identify the syntax used to control the flow of a loop by using loop control statements.
• Identify characteristics of exceptions.
• Identify the syntax of try and catch blocks.
• Identify the syntax of multiple catch blocks.
• Identify the syntax of a throw statement.
• Identify characteristics of the finally clause.
• Match the syntax used to check for arithmetic overflow with their descriptions.

Unit 2: Methods and Parameters

• Identify the syntax used to define a method.
• Identify the syntax used to call a method.
• Identify the syntax used to declare local variables in methods.
• Identify the syntax used to return a value from a method.
• Identify the syntax used to call a parameter.
• Identify characteristics of passing parameters.
• Identify the characteristics of passing parameters by reference.
• Identify the characteristics of output parameters.
• Identify the syntax used to pass a variable-length parameter list to a method.
• Identify the syntax used to create a recursive method.
• Identify characteristics of overloaded methods.
• Identify the syntax of method signatures.
• Identify situations for using overloaded methods.

Unit 3: Arrays

• Identify characteristics of an array.
• Identify the syntax used to access an array element.
• Identify guidelines for using an array.
• Identify the syntax of a foreach statement.
• Identify the syntax used to create an array instance.
• Identify the syntax used to initialize an array element.
• Identify the syntax used to create a computed size array.
• Identify characteristics of copying an array variable.
• Identify characteristics of array properties.
• Match array methods with their descriptions.
• Identify the syntax used to return an array from a method.
• Identify the syntax for passing an array as a parameter to a method.
• Identify characteristics of passing command-line arguments to the Main method.

Duration

8

Minimum Requirements

The CDROM version of this course requires:

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
• At least a double speed CDROM drive.
• An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently only the CDROM version supports audio).

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).

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