C#: A Beginner's Guide

C#: A Beginner's Guide is the Chinese translation of C#: A Beginner's Tutorial by Jayden Ky, founder of Brainy Software in Toronto, Canada, translated by Li Qiang and Wu Ge and published by Posts & Telecom Press in July 2014. The book runs to about 290,000 Chinese characters, with 17 chapters and 3 appendices. It does not aim to cover every technical detail of the .NET development framework, but centers on the three main threads beginners really need: the C# language itself, object-oriented programming concepts, and the .NET Framework class library. The first few chapters begin with the first C# program and then cover language fundamentals (Unicode and character types, variables and constants, operators, comments), statements (if, while, do-while, for, switch, break and continue), and objects and classes (namespaces, encapsulation and access control, the this keyword, static members, method overloading), before moving on to inheritance, structs and nullable types, exception handling, numbers and dates, interfaces and abstract classes, enums, generics, and collections. The latter half turns to application-level topics: file and directory operations, reading and writing text streams and binary data, WPF interface programming (controls, panels and layout, event handling, XAML), polymorphism, and using ADO.NET to connect to SQL Server for data access. The three appendices introduce downloading, installing, and creating projects in Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop, Visual C# 2010 Express, and SQL Server 2012 Express, helping readers set up a development environment from scratch. The book is rich in examples and plain in language, aimed at C# beginners and students in computer-related majors.