Online Training
3-day fast track C# training course
Live online training course - classroom version also available
Three days (09:30 to 16:30 UK time each day)
Our three-day fast-track C# course is designed to get you up and running as a C# programmer. You'll learn all of the basics (creating variables, testing conditions, looping), but you will also have time to get onto crucial advanced concepts like creating classes and using entity frameworks and LINQ to get information out of databases.
Our online fast-track courses are only available as tailored courses (you can see why here). They're not for the faint-hearted: the idea is to provide as quick a start to learning software as possible, for people who are IT-ability-rich but time-poor.
Course Contents
This fast-track course combines topics from the following other Wise Owl courses:
Creating forms
- Drawing controls
- Formatting forms
Coding form events
- Forms and their events
- The two event arguments
Laying out your code
- Commenting out code
- Using regions
C# variables
- Creating and using variables
- The types of variable
If time
Enumerations and constants
- Enumerations
- Constants
Conditions
- Using IF and ELSE
- The SWITCH statement
Modular code
- Passing arguments
- Writing functions
Arrays
- Using arrays
- Splitting text
Looping
- Looping n times
- WHILE loops
- Looping over collections
Files and folders
- Stream readers and writers
- The USING statement
- FileInfo and DirectoryInfo
Debugging and trapping errors
- The TRY clause
- Stepping through code
- Setting breakpoints
Using lists
- Populating lists
- Finding items
Properties in C#
- RO, WO and RW properties
- Coding properties
Designing classes
- The domestic cat object
- Properties and methods
- Encapsulation and exposure
Creating classes
- Using namespaces
- Creating constructors
- Fields, properties and methods
- Static members
The form as a class
- Partial classes
- InitalizeComponent method
- Instantiating forms
Data structures
- Generics
- Arrays
- Lists, stacks and queues
- Dictionaries
If time
Overloading
- Overloaded methods
- Overloading constructors
LINQ theory
- Extension methods
- Ienumerability
- Query vs. method syntax
Writing LINQ
- Arrays, lists and data tables
- Criteria and ordering
- Using LET expressions
If time
Advanced LINQ
- Projecting data
- Anonymous types
- Forcing query execution
- Taking and skipping
Types of model
- Code first
- Model first
- Database first
Entity Frameworks
- Creating entity data models
- Data contexts
- Updating models
LINQ with Entity Frameworks
- Creating a data context
- Selecting data using LINQ
- Using relationships (associations)
- Adding, editing and deleting
If time
Advanced LINQ with EF
- Returning anonymous types
- Using stored procedures
- Extending (partial classes)
If time
Grouping using LINQ
- IGrouping and IEnumerable
- Grouping keys
- Group into and ordering
- Using multiple keys
Benefits of our online training
Here are some reasons to choose Wise Owl online courses:
- Maximum of 5 people per class
- Excellent colour courseware manual posted to you in advance
- Pre-course set-up included in the days before the course
- No need to install any software on your computer
- All courses given by one of our 6 Wise Owl trainers
What other people have said
Many thanks to those listed below for kindly agreeing to let us use their names. All of the reviews are from the last 3 calendar years (although some may be for classroom courses):
Sharon Naughton (Trafford Housing Trust)
Leila Abidi (Win Technologies)
Samantha Turpin (Crown Commercial Service)
Richard Warren (Southend-on-Sea Borough Council)
Sammi Lee (Kier Highways Ltd)
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How our live online training courses work
We've published a full summary of what it's like to attend a Wise Owl course online - here are the main things you need to know.
You'll need three things for the course:
- A computer (obviously) running Windows.
- A good internet connection.
- A microphone and (ideally) webcam.
In addition you'll find the course very difficult without an additional monitor (so that you can participate in the course on one screen, and use the software you're learning on the other).
Within a few hours of your booking a place on one of our online courses, we'll be in touch to get you set up correctly. This usually takes about half an hour, and can be done at any mutually convenient date/time.
A few days before your course begins you'll receive a parcel in the post (free for UK bookings) containing:
- A full colour courseware manual;
- An exercise booklet to go with the course; and
- A USB stick containing the files for the course, should you need a back-up.
Your parcel will even include a Wise Owl Sheaffer biro (they're good; trust us) and pad.
You won't need to install any software at all on your computer. This is because:
- you'll use Windows Remote Desktop to connect to our computers, and these will have all of the necessary files and software installed; and
- we use Teams for our online training, which you can run through most modern browsers.
On the day of the course itself you will be able to join the course up to half an hour before it begins. This will give you time to:
- familiarise yourself with the set-up;
- meet your trainer; and
- get to know the other delegates!
After the course finishes you'll receive an electronic certificate proving your attendance (we will gladly send a paper copy on request also).
You can see full details of exactly how our online courses work here.