.Net/C# Developer

Lesson 1 – Introduction
– What is a program? What’s the purpose of programming? What can we do with .NET?
– What is an IDE? How they make programmers’ life easier.
– What is .NET and what is C#?
– Our first program in C# run from the IDE
– C# as a compiled and interpreted language (command line reproduction of the steps our IDE did for us in order to run the showed program)
– Variables. What is a variable?
– Literals: Integer, Floating Point, Boolean, Character and String
– Operators

Lesson 2 – Code Management
– Version Control
– Comments
– Packages
– Run a C# program
– Examples & exercises

Lesson 3 – Arrays & Strings
– What are they?
– Array length
– Multidimensional Arrays
– Accessing, changing elements of an Array
– Looping through an Array
– Pass an array as a function argument.
– Examples with most used methods from Arrays utility class
– Manipulating strings (substring, comparing strings, converting from a char array, etc.)
– Examples & exercises

Lesson 4 – Functions
– What is a function and what is its general purpose
– Function parameters, optional parameters, return values
– Writing function guidelines (according to “Clean Code” by Robert C. Martin)
– Local variables lifecycle explained
– Passing primitive variables as parameters to functions
– Functions with a variable number of arguments
– Pass by value
– Calling functions, Named arguments
– Examples & Exercises

Lesson 5 – Introduction to OOP
– What is OOP, OOP vs Procedural
– What is a class
– What is an object
– Constructor
– Declaring & initializing a class instance
– Memory allocation & the garbage collector
– Instance variables/methods vs static variables/methods
– Static initialization block
– Non-static initialization block
– C# access modifiers
– Examples & Exercises

Lesson 6 – Inheritance, abstract classes, interfaces
– Inheritance explained
– Overriding methods
– Super keyword
– Protected explained
– Final keyword
– Abstract classes
– Interfaces
– Interfaces vs abstract classes
– Multiple implementations of interfaces
– Examples & Exercises

Lesson 7 – Inner classes, Object class, null object
– Inner classes
– Null object
– Examples & Exercises

Lesson 8 – Enums, Exception Handling
– Enum class explained
– Exceptions hierarchy
– Checked vs Unchecked exceptions
– Try-catch-finally explained
– Throwing exceptions ( throw command)
– Treated exceptions locally or delegating them
– Defining our own exceptions
– Examples & Exercises

Lesson 9 – Input/Output Streams, Serialization
– The File class
– Byte Streams
– Character Streams
– Buffered Stream
– Data Streams
– Object Streams
– Serializable interface
– Examples & Exercises

Lesson 10 – Generics, Collections
– Generic classes
– Generis functions
– Generics naming convention
– Collections interfaces with examples of the most used classes that implement them
– List
– Set
– Queue
– Examples & Exercises

Lesson 11 – Generics, Collections
– The role of equals & hashcode methods for collections
– Iterators
– Foreach instruction
– Map interface
– Collections algorithms
– Examples & Exercises

Lesson 12 – Threads, Sockets, Tasks (Async Await)
– Running code sequential vs in parallel
– Async Await in .net (C#)
– Creating and starting a thread in C#
– Thread lifecycle
– Pausing a thread execution
– Thread joins
– Synchronization and Locks
– Wait, notify, notifyAll explained
– Examples & Exercises

Lesson 13 – Threads, Sockets, Tasks (Async Await)
– Atomic Variables
– Volatile keyword
– Immutable objects
– Parallel programming pitfalls
– Client Socket
– Server Socket
– Examples & Exercises

Lesson 14 – Dependency managers, C# database connectivity
– Nuget Package Manager
– Importing multiple projects into your project
– Setting up a connection to SQL Server from C#
– Calling SQL code from C#
– Closing C# connection to SQL Server
– Result Metadata
– Database Metadata

Lesson 15 – Entity Framework
– What is Entity Framework?
– DIfferent ORMs
– Lambda Expressions
– Migrations
– Package Manager Console
– EF Code First vs Database First
– Examples & Exercises

Lesson 16 – Anonymous Objects. Functional Interfaces, Dependency Injection
– Anonymous Objects examples
– Functional Interfaces
– Lambda expressions
– Method References
– Dependency Injection
– Streams API in Collections
– Fixing null: Optional class
– Examples & Exercises

Lesson 17 – MVC, Web API & Code Generation
– MVC (Model View Controller pattern)
– What is a Web API
– HTTP Verbs
– JSON / XML
– EF Views Generation
– Examples & Exercises

Lesson 18 – Unit testing & Clean Code
– Clean Code
– Why is Clean Code Important
– General code writing guidelines
– DRY Principle
– Kiss principle
– Yagni Principle
– Unit Testing
– xUnit
– nUnit
– Unit tests vs Integration Tests
– Using mocking libraries
– Decoupled Code And Unit Tests

Lesson 19 – Project Phase 1
– Preparing a project