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Visual C# How to Program, 6th edition

Published by Pearson (August 3, 2016) © 2017

  • Paul Deitel Deitel & Associates, Inc.
  • Harvey M. Deitel Deitel & Associates, Inc.

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For all basic-to-intermediate level courses in Visual C# programming.

An informative, engaging, challenging and entertaining introduction to Visual C#

Created by world-renowned programming instructors Paul and Harvey Deitel, Visual C# How to Program, Sixth Edition  introduces  students to the world of desktop, mobile and web app development with Microsoft’s® Visual C#® programming language. Students will use .NET platform and the Visual Studio® Integrated Development Environment to write, test, and debug applications and run them on a wide variety of Windows® devices.

At the heart of the book is the Deitel signature live-code approach—rather than using code snippets, the authors present concepts in the context of complete working programs followed by sample executions. Students begin by getting comfortable with the Visual Studio Community edition IDE and basic C# syntax. Next, they build their skills one step at a time, mastering control structures, classes, objects, methods, variables, arrays, and the core techniques of object-oriented programming. With this strong foundation in place, the authors introduce more sophisticated techniques, including searching, sorting, data structures, generics, and collections. Additional practice is provided through a broad range of example programs and exercises selected from computer science, business, education, social issues, personal utilities, sports, mathematics, puzzles, simulation, game playing, graphics, multimedia and many other areas.

Signature “Live Code™ Approach” — Language features are presented in the context of a wide variety of complete working programs.

  • Features thousands of lines of code in hundreds of complete working programs.
  • A broad range of example programs selected from computer science, business, simulation, game playing, graphics, multimedia and many other areas.
  • Enables students to confirm that programs run as expected.
  • Students can also download the code from the book's Companion Website www.pearsonhighered.com/deitel or from the authors’ website at http://www.deitel.com/books/VCSharpHTP6.

Object-Oriented Programming

  • Outstanding, consistent, and applied pedagogy. Icons throughout identify Software Engineering Observations; Good Programming Practices; Common Programming Errors; Portability Tips; Performance Tips; Testing and Debugging Tips; and Look-and-Feel Observations.
  • Early-objects approach. The book introduces the basic concepts and terminology of object technology in Chapter 1. In Chapter 2, students will visually manipulate graphical user interface objects, such as labels and images. In Chapter 3, Introduction to C# App Programming, students will write Visual C# program code that manipulates preexisting objects. They will develop their first customized classes and objects in Chapter 4. Our early objects presentation continues in Chapters 5–9 with a variety of straightforward case studies. Chapters 10–12 take a deeper look at classes and objects.
  • Rich coverage of programming fundamentals. Chapters 5 and 6 present a friendly treatment of control statements and problem solving.
  • A clear, example-driven presentation of classes, objects, inheritance, polymorphism and interfaces.
  • Optional case study: Using the UML to develop an object-oriented design and Visual C# implementation of an Automated Teller Machine (ATM). The UML™ (Unified Modeling Language™) is the industry-standard graphical language for modeling object-oriented systems. We introduce the UML in the early chapters. Online Chapters 34 and 35 include an optional case study on object-oriented design using the UML. We design and implement the software for a simple automated teller machine. We analyze a typical requirements document that specifies the system to be built. We determine the classes needed to implement that system, the attributes the classes need to have, the behaviors the classes need to exhibit and we specify how the classes must interact with one another to meet the system requirements. From the design we produce a complete working Visual C# implementation. Students often report a “light bulb moment”–the case study helps them “tie it all together” and truly understand object orientation.
  • Four programming paradigms. We discuss structured programming, object-oriented programming, generic programming and functional programming (new in this edition).

Interesting, Entertaining and Challenging Exercises

  • Extensive self-review exercises and answers are included for self-study.
  • Each chapter concludes with a substantial set of exercises, including simple recall of important terminology and concepts, identifying the errors in code samples, writing individual program statements, writing methods to perform specific tasks, writing C# classes, writing complete programs and implementing major projects. The Making a Difference ex

About the Book

  • Integrated coverage of new C# 6 functionality.
  • C# 6 new language features appear throughout the book and each occurrence is marked with a “6” margin icon
  • All material is updated for use with Visual Studio 2015.
  • Hundreds of exercises updated for student practice skills

Brief Contents

  1. Introduction to Computers, the Internet and Visual C#
  2. Introduction to Visual Studio and Visual Programming
  3. Introduction to C# App Programming
  4. Introduction to Classes, Objects, Methods and strings
  5. Methods: A Deeper Look
  6. Arrays; Introduction to Exception Handling
  7. Introduction to LINQ and the List Collection
  8. Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look
  9. Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance
  10. OOP: Polymorphism and Interfaces
  11. Exception Handling: A Deeper Look
  12. Graphical User Interfaces with Windows Forms: Part 1
  13. Graphical User Interfaces with Windows Forms: Part 2
  14. Strings and Characters: A Deeper Look
  15. Files and Streams
  16. Searching and Sorting
  17. Custom Linked Data Structures
  18. Generics
  19. Generic Collections; Functional Programming with LINQ/PLINQ
  20. Databases and LINQ
  21. Asynchronous Programming with async and await

Appendices

  1. Operator Precedence Chart
  2. Simple Types
  3. ASCII Character Set

ONLINE Topics

  • Web App Development with ASP.NET
  • XML and LINQ to XML
  • Universal Windows Platform (UWP) GUI, Graphics, Multimedia and XAML
  • REST Web ServicesCloud Computing with Microsoft Azure™
  • Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) GUI, Graphics, Multimedia and XAML
  • ATM Case Study, Part 1: Object-Oriented Design with the UML
  • ATM Case Study, Part 2: Implementing an Object- Oriented Design in C#
  • Using the Visual Studio Debugger

Paul Deitel, CEO and Chief Technical Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., has over 35 years of experience in computing. He is a graduate of MIT, where he studied Information Technology. Through Deitel & Associates, Inc., he has delivered hundreds of programming courses worldwide to clients, including Cisco, IBM, Boeing, Siemens, Sun Microsystems (now Oracle), Dell, Fidelity, NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, the National Severe Storm Laboratory, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), White Sands Missile Range, Rogue Wave Software, SunGard, Nortel Networks, Puma, iRobot, Invensys and many more. He and his co-author-, Dr. Harvey Deitel, are the world’s best-selling programming-language textbook/professional book/video authors.

Paul was named as a Microsoft® Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for C# in 2012—2014. According to Microsoft, “the Microsoft MVP Award is an annual award that recognizes exceptional technology community leaders worldwide who actively share their high quality, real-world expertise with users and Microsoft.” He also holds the Java Certified Programmer and Java Certified Developer designations and is an Oracle Java Champion.

Dr. Harvey Deitel, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., has over 55 years of experience in the computer field. Dr. Deitel earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Boston University–he studied computing in each of these programs before they spun off Computer Science programs. He has extensive college teaching experience, including earning tenure and serving as the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Boston College before founding Deitel & Associates, Inc., in 1991 with his son, Paul. The Deitels’ publications have earned international recognition, with translations published in Japanese, German, Russian, Spanish, French, Polish, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Greek, Urdu and Turkish. Dr. Deitel has delivered hundreds of programming courses to academic, corporate, government and military clients.

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