Course materials & problems for HackBulgaria's Programming 101 with C#. Starting November 2015.

The course is happening thanks to the following companies:

• Working with Visual Studio - projects, solutions, compiling & running.
• Basic cmd commands
• Introducing C# with syntax, types & language constructs
• Problem solving & debugging with C#

• Working with methods in C#: named parameters, params keyword, yield, ref, out. Reference types and value types. Overloads and optional parameters.
• More built-in types: DateTime, CultureInfo, formatting strings, the TryParse/TryGet concept, Math, Random
• Working with source control systems: git and TFS

• Introducing C# OOP concepts & Solving OOP problems
  • classes/structs/enums: members (fields/properties/methods)
  • modifiers (encapsulation)
  • namespaces
  • Objects, base Object type, class/struct
  • base methods: ToString(), Equals(), GetHashCode()
  • constructors
  • redefining operators
  • static members

• Second take on C# OOP concepts
  • Interfaces & standard interfaces: IEnumerable, IComparable
  • Inheritence & Abstract Classes
  • Polymorhism
  • Overloading vs Overriding vs Hiding
  • When to use inheritance and when to use a member
    • is vs has

• Introducing Generic Types
• Introducing C# Collections & data structures in C#
• Solving problems with different data structures.
• Nullable types

• Introducing delegates and events
• Working with nested & anonymous Classes
• Static constructors
• Introducing exceptions in C#

• Introducing LINQ and working with LINQ over collections
• Introducing lambda expressions
• Introducing IO in C# - working with files and streams
• Introducing XML as a data format. Working with LIQN to XML
• Data serialization to XML and binary

• Introducing Test Driven Development
• Introducing review process in software development
• Working with tools like stylecop
• Intoducing some basic UI with WinForms
• Solving problems in teams

• Introducing Threads and background workers and tasks.
• async / await concept

• Looking at the bigger picture - objected oriented design
• Desining larger systems & making bigger software projects using everything we know up to now.

• Introducing NuGet and working with 3rd party libraries.
  • Working with JSON serializers and HTTP clients

• Introducing databases - SQL, connections & data readers.

• Introducing the concept for ORM with Entity Framework

• Introducing Reflection in C#
• How does it work? CLR, Virtual machines & .NET overview
• Working with technologies
  • ASP.NET, MVC
  • ASP.NET, WebAPI
  • WPF & XAML