C# Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners

About this course

hi i'm bob tabor with developer university and i welcome you to this course covering the fundamentals of the c-sharp programming language and

programming topics in general designed specifically for absolute beginners to programming now if you're already an experienced software developer coming from another software development

platform programming language then frankly this series of lessons will move much too slowly for you you might be better served to find another resource to use as a starting point one with you

the experienced beginner to c-sharp in mind and Microsoft Virtual Academy has many great courses designed for people at all skill levels so I recommend that you start your search there however if

you are completely new to programming and you're new to the C sharp programming language and you're new to building applications on the Windows platform then this perhaps is the best

place for you to start not only will you and I work together to learn the syntax of c-sharp but I'm going to take the time to walk through everything that we do together I'll explain what we're

doing but more importantly I want to explain why we're doing it the thought process behind it I'm going to try to anticipate the questions you might have anticipate the problems that you might

run into as you're typing your very first lines of code into the code window or as you're working through some of the exercises that we'll work through together I've literally taught hundreds

of thousands of people maybe even millions of people c-sharp over the past 14 years that's no exaggeration this includes children as old as eight years old and as young as 80 years old from

virtually every corner of the world they've all learned from a version of this course and I know you can learn too in fact this is the sixth iteration of this very course dating all the way back

to 2005 and over the years I've incorporated the feedback from thousands of students feedback and suggestions on how to improve the course I've incorporated those in in an effort to

make sure that this is the very best effort that I can put forward to help you get your feet wet with c-sharp now I only make one real assumption as we begin this course and

that's that you already have some version in addition to Visual Studio already installed on your local computer and you're ready to write your very first lines of code now if you don't

already have Visual Studio installed then please by all means visit Visual Studio comm where you'll learn about the many free and commercial editions of Visual Studio that are available what

the differences are now personally I used visual studio 2015 Community Edition one of the free versions of Visual Studio that are available on visual studio comm and I want to

emphasize that you can use any addition in version a Visual Studio with these lessons there might be tiny user interface differences between between what you see on my screen and what you

see on your screen as you work through the videos however I'm not going to be focusing on any specific features of Visual Studio so hopefully that won't prevent you from following along no

matter what there will be other courses on Microsoft Virtual Academy that will demonstrate the power of Visual Studio all the features that Visual Studio has to offer explaining the differences

between editions and versions of Visual Studio but I won't be focusing on that in this course I'm going to focus specifically on the basics of the c-sharp programming language itself and

what I will demonstrate will be true no matter which version or Edition of Visual Studio that you choose to use and that's great great news because as long as c-sharp exists these lessons should

still be valid and useful to you no matter what so to get the most out of this course or any course that you find online you really should become an active learner and that takes several

different forms first of all you should attempt to follow along closely and do what I call getting your hands dirty in the code actually writing the code that I'm writing on screen you're writing it

along with me all right there's no better way to learn how to code then actually write code yourself it's like suggesting that somebody learn how

to play the guitar without ever touching a guitar you'd think well that's virtually impossible typing in the code yourself will give you insights that merely watching videos won't so pause

the video rewind the video re-watch portions of the videos as you need to I'm going to make the code available for download and you're welcome to it and you can use that to compare the code

that you write versus the code that I've written in the videos but you really should be typing in everything on your own in your own local copy of Visual Studio running on your desktop so also

don't rush through this course if something doesn't make sense again pause the video rewind the video rewatch those portions that don't make complete sense at first sometimes a second or a third

viewing focusing more specifically on what's going on around the screen and on the words that I'm saying can help being an active learner also means that you're taking control of the process of

learning so if I say something or do something that doesn't completely make sense by all means find a second or a third resource that can help you maybe it's an

article out on msdn.microsoft.com or other videos on channel mine or Microsoft Virtual Academy but make sure you search out those resources that resonate well for you if you're

interested in even more comprehensive version of this course of a c-sharp training course that covers a lot more ground in more depth complete with dozens of coding challenges and over

thirty hours of video instruction then please visit my own website Debu comm developer university you'll also find many other training courses that i've created designed specifically

to help you become a professional c-sharp developer someday furthermore over time as we go through this course and as i begin to feel questions about it i might add some study resources and

additional free content related to the topics in the course that you're currently watching right now so that's another reason to be sure to visit me at EUCOM now like I said earlier if you're

new to programming I'm really excited for you learning to write applications is really one of my life's passions it's extremely gratifying to breathe life into your imagination and watch your

creations come to life and watch other people actually then use your applications you're embarking on a really exciting journey that's immersive it's personally and professionally

rewarding and best of all I know you can do this again I've seen so many people start off where you're at right now and they might even be working professionally writing code for a living

or building real applications that are being sold in app stores like the Windows Store so if you've ever gotten stuck in the past and trying to learn how to program I promise you that if you

put in the time and you put in the effort and you work along with me as we work together we're going to build the knowledge of c-sharp that you need to be well equipped to move on to more

advanced tutorials where you can learn how to build your own web applications and Windows applications Windows Store applications cloud services video games and even applications that will run on

iOS and Android using c-sharp now assuming again that you have some version in addition to visual studio already installed and you're ready to go then we're going to begin writing

c-sharp in the very next lesson I hope you're excited because I really am this is so much fun let's go ahead and get started we'll see you there thank you