Software Development with C#

Hanspeter Mössenböck
University of Linz, Austria

Latest update: September 1, 2009

This course describes the programming language C# with its latest features up to C# 4.0. It is designed for students who are already familiar with a programming language like Java or C++.

All material is published under the Microsoft Curriculum Licence.
(c) University of Linz, Institute for System Software, 2009

Course Description Text Books Download Author

Course Description

Motivation

Although many universities use Java or C++ as their primary programming language (and do not plan to switch to C# and .NET in the near future) they feel the need to provide their students with some knowledge about C#, which becomes more and more important in industry. A course with this goal is different from introductory programming courses, since it can assume that the students are already proficient in programming and know the basics of object-oriented programming.

C# is a mixture of Java, C++ and Visual Basic. It combines Java's type safety (type checking, garbage collection) with the power and flexibility of C++ (e.g. operator overloading, low-level operations). In addition to that it has some new features for component-based programming (properties and events), a kind of function pointers (delegates), reference parameters, stack objects and many other useful things. It also includes features of functional programming languages (e.g. lambda expressions) as well as SQL-like queries on memory data structures or XML (LINQ).

The course has been delivered several times at the university of Linz. There are more than 300 Powerpoint slides to be downloaded.

The course is being delivered as 15 lecturing units of 45 minutes each. We recommend to accompany the course with a programming lab or a term project. Exercises can be found in our text books. Sample solutions are on our web site.

Overview
Symbols
Types
Expressions
Declarations
Statements
Classes and structs
Inheritance
Interfaces
Delegates
Exceptions
Namespaces and assemblies
Attributes
Threads
XML comments
Native callsv
Pointers
Class library
C# 2.0
C# 3.0
C# 4.0

Text Books

We have written a text book on which this course is based. The most up-to-date version (covering all features up to C# 4.0) is written in German. There is also an English version, which covers the features up to C# 2.0.

	H. Mössenböck: Kompaktkurs C# 4.0 3rd edition dpunkt.verlag 2009, 294 pages ISBN 978-3-89864-645-1
	H. Mössenböck: C# to the Point Addison-Wesley 2004, 246 pages ISBN 0-321-25290-X

Download

Powerpoint slides (more than 300)
Exercises (more than 100)
at the end of every chapter in the C# book
Sample solutions to the exercises
C# german
C# english
Various (talks, student projects, links, ...)

Author

Prof. Dr. Hanspeter Mössenböck
PhD in Computer Science (University of Linz, 1987). From 1988 to 1994 assistant professor at ETH Zurich with Prof. Niklaus Wirth. Since 1994 full professor of Computer Science at the University of Linz, Austria. Head of the Institute for System Software. Head of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Automated Software Engineering.

Besides teaching courses on compiler construction, (object-oriented) programming, algorithms & data structures, and .NET, he also regularly lectures at the Oxford Brookes University, UK, and appeared as a speaker of various .NET events.