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• Start Here: Get your software installed & watch my Introduction Video (The video is in C++ but it all applies to C#)

1. In order to work on your own computer you will need Visual Studio installed. Fortunately, Microsoft has a free version.
2. Get Visual Studio Community Edition installed on your computer right away.
3. You must be using a computer with Windows 10 or greater installed. If you have a MAC you must install Windows before VS or download VS for MAC.

• Introduction to Programming Video: Please watch this first. View it in full screen.
• Get the project I used in this video if you want it.

• Lesson 1
  Getting To Know Visual Studio & C#
• Assignment:
  • Read pages 1-10 in my VB E-Book so you can see how to set up Visual Studio.
  • Listen to videos 1-6 and create the projects along with me.

• Learning to Program Video Series: Building a Windows Desktop Application
  (These are done in Visual Basic but it all applies to C#)
  
  1. Introduction to Visual Studio  video
  2. Your first project:Working with controls video
  3. Modifying controls with Properties  video
  4. Naming your controls & making them respond video
• 5. Writing code to add features video
  6. Setting up some Visual Studio Options video
  
• Get the project I used in the videos here.

• Lesson 2
  Introduction to C# & Data Entry (Chapters 1-3)
• Assignment:
  • Listen to videos for First Day Demo & data entry 1-2 and create the projects along with me. You should download my projects so you can study them.

• First Day Demo Project   

• Video/Lecture 1 (First day demo & overview of Visual Studio)

• Data Entry Part 1  Project

• Video/Lecture 2: Data Entry 1(Create & open project. Step-by-Step Programming)

• Data Entry Part 2  Project

• Video/Lecture 3: Data Entry 2(Default Keys |Short-Cut Keys |Tool Tips | Tab Order)

• What are all those using statements for?

• Lesson 3
  Introduction To Variables, List box controls, Counting, & Totals. (Chapter 4)
• Assignment:
  • Listen to videos & look at projects in this lesson.
• Look at Ron's Pet Store Demo project & video.

• Learning about variables demo

• Video/Lecture 4: Using Variables

• C# Data Types  This PDF  lists the major data types we will be using. (Chapter 4 in Murach)

• I need you to know:
  int (int32)
  float
  double
  decimal
  bool
  char
  string

• Data Entry Part 3 Project

• Video/Lecture 5: Data Entry 3 (Create & initialize decimal variables | Simple Math | Format Strings)

• Data Entry Part 4 project

• Video/Lecture 6: Data Entry 4 (Simple Listboxes & Data Entry)

• Using List Boxes & Dynamic Properties

• Video/Lecture 7: List Boxes & Dynamic Properties(Change form color & size at run time)

• Learning about Running Totals & Counting

• Video/Lecture 8: Totals & Counts(Listbox Items & pricing. Using class-level variables)

• Ron's Pet Store Demo (includes my images)

• Video/Lecture 9: Pet Store(Multi-forms, menus, working with images)

• Lesson 4
  Making Decisions (Chapter 5) & Custom Event Handlers, & Loops (p.146)
• Assignment:
  • Look at videos & projects for Decisions Using If Statements, logical operators and Switch. Be sure to read chapter 5.
  • Look at the projects & videos for Loops.

• IF and Switch Statements (Links to MSDN)

• Making Decisions Using if part 1

• Video/Lecture 10: If statements Part 1 (Test network, validate textbox, confirm exit)
• Video/Lecture 11: Working with source code regions(Put blocks of your code into regions to organize your program)

• Logical operators: If statements part 2 Ron's Down 'N Out resturant.

• Video/Lecture 12: If Statements Part 2:(Log in to a form, multiple options and logic, group boxes, & enabling/disabling controls)
  • Working with Constants (Part I forgot in Lecture 12)

• Using Switch project

• Video/Lecture 13: Using Switch

• Trapping Multiple Controls
  • Using one event handler to trap three Radio Button click events

• Video/Lecture 15: Handling Multiple Controls(create one handler for multiple controls, casting data types)

• Using Loops
• Loop Test Demo
• Using For Loops

• Using Logic Loops (See Loop Test Demo)

• Video/Lecture 17: Logic Loops (Do and While Loops)

• For Each Loop Controls Collection Demo

• Video/Lecture 18: Collection Loops (Foreach with the controls collection)

• Lesson 5
  Reading and writing to the file system. Introduction to File I/O & Structured Error Handling

Project Zip files:

• Using Streams Demo Project
• Introduction to File I/O
• File IO with "Using" statements & Filestreams

• Video/Lecture 19: Learning File IO. (Saving and reading data from disk or network drives)