Head First C#

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

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