Programming in the Key of C#

Learning to program is like learning a musical instrument. It takes dedication, lots of practice, and a great teacher. This primer-created by award-winning author Charles Petzold-focuses on the fundamentals of composing code with C#, an intuitive object-oriented programming language ideal for creating solutions for Microsoft Windows and the Web. Whether you're new to programming or new to C#, you'll quickly build the skills you need to orchestrate your own applications in the key of C#. Discover how to: .Start simple with variables-integers and text strings .Learn the basics of user input and output .Get deeper into data types with decimals and floating point .Explore how Booleans help a program make decisions .Branch, loop, and enumerate to perform selective and repetitive tasks .Prevent your programs from crashing with structured exception handling .Assemble classes from fields, methods, and properties .Extend classes with inheritance, operators, and virtual methods .Store information in data fields .Teach your programs to play music in the key of C#

ISBN 0735618003   Pages 432 ISBN13 9780735618008 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Microsoft Press,U.S.   Weight (grammes) 739 Imprint Microsoft Press,U.S.   Published in Redmond Format Paperback   Series title Pro-Developer (Paperback) Publication date 06 Aug 2003   Height (mm) 235 Library of Congress 2003052699   Width (mm) 191 DEWEY 005.133   Spine width (mm) 22 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level General

		Prelude
Pt. I		Beginnings		1
1		You the Programmer		3
2		First Assignments		10
3		Declarations of Purpose		16
4		Edit, Compile, Run		24
5		Console Output		29
6		Arithmetic and Its Shortcuts		35
7		Comments		45
Pt. II		Basic Types		49
8		Integers and the .NET Framework		51
9		Text Strings		65
10		The Stack and the Heap		74
11		String Conversion		78
12		Console Input		84
13		Constants		88
14		Decimals		92
15		Floating Point		99
16		Fancy Formatting		106
17		Methods and Fields		112
18		Arrays		129
19		Booleans		148
20		Characters and Strings		154
Pt. III		Ifs and Loops		163
21		Comparisons		165
22		Making Decisions		171
23		The Conditional Operators		186
24		The While Loop		190
25		Catching Exceptions		204
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