C# for Automated Testing

A short introduction to Visual Studio 2019

A short introduction to Visual Studio 2017

A very short introduction to Visual Studio 2015

We will start by introducing the concept of a Console application. Afterwards you will learn about variables and how to use them.

Learn more about the built-in types like: string, char, boolean, integral, floating and decimal types

Learn more about the basic string usage, escaping characters and verbatim literal

Learn how to working with numbers and how you can use the Math() class

Learn about different types of operators, like the assignment, arithmetic, comparison, conditional, ... operators

Learn how to create and work with arrays

Learn how to create and call simple methods, but also how you can create a method which will return a value.

Learn how you can document your code.

2d arrays

Learn about implicit and explicit conversions, and how you can use Parse() and TryParse()

Very simple quiz to check if you known the basics of C#

Learn how to build conditional statement by using if / else

Learn how to improve a conditional statement with the switch statement

Learn how to create loop statements using while

Learn how to create loop statements using for.

Learn about classes, objects and instances and how they are related

Learn about the usage of a constructor and how to implement this into a class

Learn how to add actions/methods to a class/object

Learn about a special type of class methods, named properties (or getters and setters), and how to implement these

Learn about the advantages of using static class attributes

Just like static attributes a class can also contain static methods and the class itself can also be static. Learn about the benefits of implementing this.

Brief introduction to the base concepts of object oriented programming and why we should use this

Learn more about the concept of inheritance, followed by extending and overriding

What are access modifiers (like public, private, internal and protected) and how are they used within object oriented programming

Learn about interfaces and how to use them

Learn about abstract and sealed classes, and compare them with the usage of interfaces.