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| Introduction | |
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| Computers and Computer Programming: Basic Concepts | |
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| C# Is an Object-Oriented Programming Language | |
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| Hardware | |
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| Software | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Your First C# Program | |
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| Software Development | |
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| The Software Development Process | |
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| Algorithms and Pseudocode | |
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| The Three Different Types of Errors | |
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| Object-Oriented Programming: A First Encounter | |
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| Software Reuse | |
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| The Assembly, the Basic Unit of Code Reuse in .NET | |
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| The .NET Framework Class Library | |
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| C#: History and Design Goals | |
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| C#'s Background | |
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| C#'s Design Goals | |
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| What Kind of Programs Can I Write with C#? The Mechanics of Creating a C# Program | |
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| Before Getting Started | |
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| Choosing a Text Editor | |
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| The Seven Steps to Writing a Simple C# Program | |
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| A Brief Source Code Analysis | |
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| Note on Syntax Errors and Compilers | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Programming Exercises | |
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| 3 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Abstraction and Encapsulation | |
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| An Interactive Hello World! Program | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Programming Exercises | |
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| A Guided Tour through C#: Part II | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Essential Elements of SimpleCalculator.cs | |
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| Simplifying Your Code with Methods | |
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| Methods as Building Blocks: Encapsulating Your Helper Methods with the private keyword | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Programming Exercises | |
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| Your First Object-Oriented C# Program | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Lexical Structure | |
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| Some Thoughts on Elevator Simulations | |
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| Concepts, Goals and Solutions in an Elevator Simulation Program: Collecting Valuable Statistics for Evaluating an Elevator System | |
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| Object-Oriented Programming: A Practical Example | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Programming Exercises | |
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| Types Part I: The Simple Types | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Types in C#: An Overview | |
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| Simple Types | |
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| The Blipos Clock | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Programming Exercises | |
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| Types Part II: Operators, Enumerators, and Strings | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Arithmetic Operators and Numerical Expressions | |
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| Associativity | |
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| Parentheses and Precedence | |
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| The Modulus Operator (%) | |
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| Unary Operators | |
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| Determining the Type of an Expression | |
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| Combining Different Types in One Expression | |
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| Accessing the Metadata of a Component: A Brief Introduction | |
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| Enumerated Constants | |
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| Enumerator Operators | |
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| Conversions | |
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| The Methods of System.Enum | |
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| Characters and Text | |
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| The char Type | |
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| The string type | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Programming Exercises | |
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| Flow of Control Part I: Branching Statements and Related Concepts | |
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| Introduction to Flow of Control | |
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| Branching with the if Statement | |
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| Comparison Operators and Boolean Expressions | |
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| Nested if Statements | |
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| Multibranch if-else Statements | |
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| Logical Operators | |
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| The Scope of Variables | |
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| The goto Statement | |
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| The switch Statement | |
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| The Conditional Operator | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Programming Exercises | |
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| Flow of Control Part II: Iteration Statements | |
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| Traversing, Analyzing, and Generating Sequences of Data | |
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| The while Loop Statement | |
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| The do-while Loop Statement | |
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| The for Loop Statement | |
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| The Jump Statements break and continue | |
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| Structured Programming and Structured Constructs | |
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| Combination Assignment Operators | |
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| Nested Iteration Statements | |
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| Programming Exercises | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Programming Exercises | |
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| Arrays Part I: Array Essentials | |
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| Declaring and Defining an Array | |
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| Accessing Individual Array Elements | |
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| Array Indexes Out of Range | |
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| Adjusting for the Zero-Based Array Index | |
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| Initializing Arrays | |
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| Traversing an Entire Array with the foreach Statement | |
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| System.Array Is a Reference Type | |
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| Arrays and Equality | |
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| Arrays and Methods | |