Classroom Training
3-day fast track C# training course
Classroom training course - online version also available
3 days
If you're learning C# you may find it difficult to spare two days out of the office for our basic C# course followed by two days for our intermediate C# course. This combined intensive course aims to cover the combined four days of training in just 3 days. See our fast track notes for how this is possible (answer: by going more quickly and taking less prisoners ...).
Course details
Possible locations:London, Manchester, Online
Next classroom course:No classroom dates
Time:10.00-16.30
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
You don't need any programming experience to attend this course (although if you've used other languages this will be useful), but you do need to be a quick learner. If you strugged with maths at school this probably isn't the right course for you!
Why Choose Us?
- No more than 5 people per class
- Proper restaurant lunch included
- 534 references viewable online
- Free USB stick containing course files
- Genuine Wise Owl trainers only
- Unbelievably good courseware
Sample customer feedback
Our thanks to everyone who agreed to share their thoughts (note that some of these reviews may be for our online courses).
Solomon Odunlami (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG))
Jane Mobey (Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA))
Folakemi Ayoade (Bank of England)
Marc Corfield-Halliwell (BBS Law)
Ian Spencer (CAS Behavioural Health / Cygnet Health)
There are lots more where these came from (or just refresh this page to change the quotes shown).
