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Developers School For Learning C#

What is all of this?
This is a kind of interactive learning platform where those who want to learn .Net with C# can find help and support. There will be an issue a week describing some areas of C# Programming Language with the Microsoft .Net Platform. This is not the same as traditional passive tutorial where the author only writes and the reader only reads. There will be exercises and problems at the end of each issue which the reader is supposed to solve after reading the issue. The solution to these problems will be provided in the next issue for testing purpose. There is also a dedicated message board for the school where you can ask any question about the article and the author will respond to your question within 2/3 days.

Learning path of the school
There will be three levels of our learning curve. In the first (beginner) level, we will be discussing the .Net Framework, C# Language Fundamentals and Object Oriented Programming. In the second (intermediate) level, we will go into depth with Object Oriented constructs in C# such as inheritance, polymorphism, abstract classes, interfaces, structs, enumerations and exceptions. In the third (advanced) level we will see practical implementations using C# with Base Libraries. We will be focusing on topics such as Collections, Delegates, Events, Windows Programming with lot of controls, Data Access with ADO.Net, Threads and Streams. In short, you will learn a lot with ease and comfort if you attend the school regularly.

Tools you need to enter the school:
As most of the time you will be writing your C# code in its standard IDE, Visual Studio.Net, you surely need this. There is a free Visual Studio.Net trial version available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/trial/

The trial must be ordered on a CD; therefore it's wise to order it right away. You also have to download the .Net Framework, which can be downloaded freely from http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa731542.aspx

The .Net Framework also contains the C# Compiler so you can use this to compile the examples given in the class and those which you want to practice with on your own.

About the Author:
Faraz Rasheed is a student of BSCS in the department of Computer Science, University of Karachi, Pakistan. He is also part of Operation Badar - an IT educational movement in Pakistan, and an international student member of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). He has a keen interest in Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) and development in programming languages like C#, Java, VC++ and VB.Net. He can be contacted via farazrasheed@acm.org or frazrasheed@hotmail.com.

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