Head First C#

Description

Head First C# is a complete learning experience for object-oriented programming, C#, and the Visual Studio IDE. Built for your brain, this book covers C# 3.0 and Visual Studio 2008, and teaches everything from language fundamentals to advanced topics including garbage collection, extension methods, and double-buffered animation. You'll also master C#'s hottest and newest syntax, LINQ, for querying SQL databases, .NET collections, and XML documents. By the time you're through, you'll be a proficient C# programmer, designing and coding large-scale applications. Every few chapters you will come across a lab that lets you apply what you've learned up to that point. Each lab is designed to simulate a professional programming task, increasing in complexity until-at last-you build a working Invaders game, complete with shooting ships, aliens descending while firing, and an animated death sequence for unlucky starfighters. This remarkably engaging book will have you going from zero to 60 with C# in no time flat. Table of Contents Intro Chapter 1: Get Productive with C# Chapter 2: It’s All Just Code Chapter 3: Objects: Get Oriented! Chapter 4: Types and References Chapter 5: Encapsulation Chapter 6: Inheritance Chapter 7: Interfaces and Abstract Classes Chatper 8: Enums and Collections Chapter 9: Reading and Writing Files Chapter 10: Exception Handling Chapter 11: Events and Delegates Chapter 12: Review and Preview Chapter 13: Controls and Graphics Chapter 14: The Death of an Object Chapter 15: LINQ Appendix i: Leftovers Index