C# for Sharp Kids

Writing programs is Fun! This e-book will have you coding your very own C# programs in no time! With fun cartoons and easy to follow code samples, you’ll be creating your own inventions in no time! The book is divided into 5 Parts.

Book Description

It is possible to create C# programs using nothing but a simple text editor (like Notepad) and something called the “C# compiler” included with the .NET Framework. To make things a little easier though, and to make sure you can carry on further once you’ve read this book, we suggest you use a development environment such as Visual C# Express. It is a lightweight environment for developing Windows applications and console (command-line) applications, using C#.

It’s important that you understand that this book is not about teaching you about the Visual C# Express Edition software product – rather it teaches you about the C# language. Visual C# Express also has lots of snazzy features like writing C# code for you when you drag-and-drop a button or other control onto the page. That’s cool and you’re welcome to use it – but this book aims to teach you C# “from the ground up”. We’d like you to learn to write C# code by hand first – so that you really understand what’s happening.

Table of Contents

• Part I – Getting Started
• Introduction
• Software You’ll Need
• Formatting Standards Used in this Book
• What’s Next?
• Part II – Learning to Communicate
• A Shared View of The World: The Alien, the Elephant and the Coconut Tree
• Computers Are Just Like Aliens
• The Object-Oriented Approach Summarized
• Classes
• Objects
• Fields and Their Types
• Types
• How to Use Fields
• Methods
• More About Methods
• Parameters
• Methods that Send Values Back
• Public, Private and Protected Methods
• Constructor Methods
• Events
• The Button Click Event
• Mouse Events
• Name Spaces
• Inheritance
• Part III – The C# Language
• Vocabulary
• Some General Grammar Rules
• Capital and Small Letters
• Statements
• Code Blocks – Grouping Statements Together
• Comments – Helping the Humans Out
• Indenting Your Code
• Variables
• Operators
• Converting Between Types
• Branching
• Looping
• The For Loop
• The While Loop
• Whole Program Structure
• Using Class Libraries
• Part IV – Programming with the .NET Framework
• System.Console
• System.Windows.Forms
• System.Drawing
• System.Data
• System.Xml
• Part V – Beyond This Book

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