Software Development Master Class - Intermediate C#

Section overview of variables and arrays.

Understand what a value type variable is, get more detailed information on the different types of standard variables and how they are stored and discover limitations on numeric and other types of variables.

Learn how to use date & time stamps in a software application and understand what time based issues are encountered.

Get a deeper understand of strings and how to manipulate them.

Use arrays to store collections of variables. This includes declaring array variables, indexing into arrays to store and retrieve values and using array literal values.

Learn about organizing programs with additional program logic flows and decomposing functionality into methods.

Get an introduction to the switch/case statement as well find out how to use the foreach to iterate through arrays (and other collections). Finally, what is De Morgan's Law and can it provide valuable help with logic.

Learning about functional decomposition and defining methods (functions) in C#.

Learn about classes, methods, properties, fields, and constructors.

Get an introduction to Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) with defining classes and instantiating objects. Learn how C# classes can be defined with fields, properties, and methods.

Learning about class constructors, method overloading, and get some more in-depth information about declartion and use of properties.

Find out what a struct is and how it is different than a class.

Introduction to standard .Net libraries, in particular, to generic lists as well as writing and reading strings to and from files.

Find out how to build a multi-tier application using object-oriented design techniques.

Find out about good class design and get an introduction to Object-Oriented Design (OOD). Get an introduction to Object-Oriented concepts like single responsibility and encapsulation.

Learn how to break an application down into multiple tiers in order to separate architectural boundaries.

Create object instances and store them in memory using lists.

Build object references with lists and correlation class where a many-to-many relationship exists.

Understand how to handle exceptions and generate your own exceptions so that errors do not occur or, when they do, be able to handle the error gracefully.

Use JSON serialization to persist an object graph to a file and load it back into memory at a later time.

Learn about logging frameworks and develop your own logging framework to write messages to a file. Handle all first chance exceptions so that they are logged as well.

Find out what data structures are and what will be discussed in this section.

Data structures provide a way to organize data into various forms. Learn what these are.

Here I present some updates to the school application to prepare it for using various data structures to store and retrieve its data.

Learn about sorting lists using a bubble sort.

Learn how a sorted list can searched in an efficient manner by repeatedly breaking the list in half until the searched item is found.

Learn about binary trees and how to build one with data.

Learn how to walk all the nodes in a binary tree so that the results come back sorted.

Find out how to search for a particular node in a binary tree.

Find out how .Net dictionaries and .Net libraries in general can make your job a lot easier.

You made it through the course, find out what we covered and what's next.

Get a recap on what was learned during this course.

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