Week 3a - The C# Programming Language

Synopsis:

Readings and Activities for the Week:

Glossary of Terms

Lecture Content:

1. The Syllabus describes topics to be covered, reading material for you to digest as part of each lecture, and due dates for assigned projects.

2. Projects:

   • Sample Project #1
     Operational Concept Document for Code Repository OCD
   • Sample Project #2
     Local Code Repository
   • Project2SampleHelp - Helper Code for Sample Project #2
   • Visual Studio 2012 Help, Package notes

3. Focus for this Lecture - C# Programming Language

   • HelloWorld in C# code, Hello World Code Snap, Console Application Wizard, docx
   • Class relationships, vsd
     Illustrates inheritance, composition, aggregation, and using in class diagram.
   • Object relationships, vsd
     Comparison of class and object relationships.
   • C# versus C++, pptx
     C# Object Model and Classes, Passing Parameters to Functions
   • .Net Framework Library, ppt
   • Collected links for C# - Core Technologies
     
   • Tutorials:
     C# Tutorials - MSDN, C# Tutorials - tutorialspoint, C# Tutorials - csharp-station, C# Tutorials - homeandlearn. C# Tutorials - Univ Linz, C# Tutorials - zetcode. .Net Framework Class Library - MSDN

4. Code examples:

   • C# Demos
     Introduces classes, class relationships, generics, enumerable types, and extension methods.
     All of these are relevant to Project #2.
   • C# Syntax Examples
     Demonstrates use of arrays, properties, indexers, simple reflection, and disposing.
   • .Net containers, Code Snaps
     Use of ArrayList, List<T>, LinkedList, SortedList, HashTable, HashSet<T>, Queue<T>, Stack<T>
   • Delegate Structure, Delegates Demos
     Delegates support the publish/subscribe idiom and provide major support for .Net's event model.
   • Syntax for using Delegates, Code Snaps
     There are several alternate ways of using delegates. This demo explores them.
   • Lambda Capture, Code Snaps
     Lambdas are anonymous callable objects, often bound to delegates. They are used to define thread processing, and often as locally defined functionality that is application specific.
   • Navigate Directory Trees
     Shows how to walk through a directory tree, using the services of the Directory and Path classes from the Framework Class Library (FCL).
   • Navigate with Delegates
     Shows how to make the Navigate module reusable by incorporating delegates.

5. Components:

   • Components Note, Components - Building Blocks for Large Systems,
   • Component:
     Interface - an abstract service contract to which the client binds
     Implemenation - the service
     Factory - standard creator the client uses to avoid binding to implementation
   • C++ Parser and C# Parser rules are pluggable because they use the component structure.

6. XML:

   XML Presentation, XML processing with LINQ

7. Preparation for Synchronous Discussion:

   • Write a brief list of steps required to create a Visual Studio solution, add a project, and build.
   • Describe how to setup a Visual Studio Solution so that one package can use the services provided by another package.

8. Lecture Take-away

   The most important things we discussed today are:

   • C# and .Net Framework presentations
   • C# demo code.

   Next time we will continue with more code examples. Please look at:

   Passing value and refence types by value and ref, Parameter Passing
   These four cases all have different semantics.

   Delegate Structure, Delegates Demos, Recent additions to C# - delegate shortcuts, lambdas, ...
   Delegates support the publish/subscribe idiom and provide major support for .Net's event model.