Introduction

Quick reference

• 00:00 All right, welcome to intro to C# programming.
• 00:03 My name is John Elder and I'll be your instructor today.
• 00:06 In this video, I want to spend just a couple of minutes talking about what
• 00:10 you can expect from the course, some of the things we're going to be learning, and
• 00:14 just sort of introducing myself and saying hello.
• 00:17 So this is a course as you know in C# programming.
• 00:20 C# is an awesome programming language, very popular, very modern, and
• 00:23 you can do all kinds of great things with it.
• 00:25 I'm going to go ahead and assume you have very little to no programming experience.
• 00:29 If you do, that's fine.
• 00:31 If you don't know anything at all, we're going to start you from the beginning and
• 00:34 walk you through step by step.
• 00:35 And it's going to be, I think, a lot easier than you might think.
• 00:39 So we're going to start out with very basic programming concepts,
• 00:42 things like variables, data types, and simple math.
• 00:44 Then we'll move to sort of intermediate concepts, things like typecasting,
• 00:48 user input and output, arrays, methods, logic, if else statements, loops, and
• 00:52 then exception handling.
• 00:53 The last part of the course, we're going to spend just a little bit of time
• 00:57 brushing up against advanced concepts,
• 00:59 specifically object-oriented programming with classes.
• 01:02 So before we get started, I want to show you the C# documentation,
• 01:05 the official documentation, just to show you as a reference in case
• 01:08 you want to reference it in the future or look up things as we go forward.
• 01:12 If there's something you don't quite understand or
• 01:15 you want to learn more about it, check up the documentation.
• 01:18 You can head over to Google, and let's just search for C# documentation.
• 01:21 And the reason why I'm going to Google is because these docs can move around from
• 01:25 time to time and
• 01:26 it's just best to search to see where the most current ones are sitting.
• 01:29 And as you probably know, C# was created by Microsoft, so these are Microsoft docs.
• 01:34 And you can see here it is right here.
• 01:36 Click on this and this is docs.microsoft.com/en-us/.net/Csharp.
• 01:42 And you see it's the word sharp not the actual number sign, right?
• 01:48 So this is the documentation,
• 01:49 spend just a couple of minutes sort of looking through here.
• 01:52 It's a nice useful reference to have.
• 01:54 You can click on this getting started, go to the Introduction,
• 01:57 maybe read through this.
• 01:58 It's kind of nice, and
• 01:59 it gives you some background that I'm not really going to touch on.
• 02:03 But C#, pronounced see sharp, is a modern, object-oriented, and
• 02:07 type-safe programming language.
• 02:09 Object-oriented is the main thing here, right?
• 02:12 We love object-oriented programming.
• 02:14 And like I said earlier, the very last part of the course,
• 02:16 we're going to spend three or four videos talking about creating classes, and
• 02:20 doing object-oriented things.
• 02:21 But even without that, C# is an object-oriented programming language.
• 02:25 And if you don't know what that is, don't worry,
• 02:27 we're going to get into all of this going forward.
• 02:28 So this course is set up with a series of videos and you'll watch the video.
• 02:32 At the end of each video, there's a number of quiz questions you can take.
• 02:36 There's also resource files and exercises that you can reference as well.
• 02:39 If you're interested, so check those out.
• 02:41 So again, my name is John Elder.
• 02:43 I'm very excited about this course.
• 02:44 I think it's going to be a lot of fun and
• 02:45 we're going to learn a lot of great stuff very quickly.
• 02:47 The course is centered around very short, bite-sized videos.
• 02:51 So I'm not going to try and overwhelm you with long videos.
• 02:54 We're going to look at one simple topic per video, three, four,
• 02:57 five minutes, understand the core concepts, see it in action,
• 03:01 and then move on to the next concept, and should be a lot of fun.
• 03:04 So let's jump right in and get started.
• 03:05 In the next video, we're going to download and
• 03:07 install the tools that we're going to need for this course.

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