ASP.NET C# IN 24 DAYS COURSE OUTLINE

This is the course schedule for the ASP.NET C# in 24 days Course. You could always check the schedule for any changes.

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Day 1: Introduction to Visual Studio, ASP and the .Net Framework

• What is the .Net Framework
• What is ASP?
• Getting a Free Visual Studio IDE
• Introduction to Visual Studio
• The Visual Studio IDE
• What you can do with  Visual Studio
• The C# Programming Language
• About this course
• Home Work

Day 2: Starting a C# Application/Structure of a C# Program

• Create a C# Console Application in Visual Studio
• What is a Console Application/Web Application
• Create a C# Web Application
• Introduction to Visual Studio
• Basic Syntax of C# Program
• Class vs Method in C#
• Multiline and Single Line Comments
• The Main() Procedure or method Keywords in C#

Home Work:

Day 3: Setting up Web, Console and Windows Application in the same solution

• Set up an Empty Solution
• Add A Console Application
• Add an Empty Web Application
• Add a Windows Application
• Add some information in each of the Projects
• Setting Startup Projects
• Trying to Access Classes across projects Setting Startup Form in Windows Project (Program.cs file)

Home Work 3: Create an Empty solution. Add an Empty Web Application. Also Add an Web forms Web Application. What difference did you notice between the two?

Bonus Class: Designing a simple Web page

Day 4: Variables, Data Types and Declaration

• What are Variables?
• Variable Name convention rules(symbols, number etc)
• Defining Variables. (More than 1 variable) Initializing Variables
• Getting User inputs (Console.ReadLine() and Console.WriteLine())
• C# Data Types(int, float, char, string, double, single, decimal)
• Value Types and Reference Types
• Value type(int, double, Boolean, short, float) 
• Reference type(String, Array, Objects) 
• Nullable Type in C#
• Introduction to Pointers and Pointer Types

Homework 4: Try to use Console.ReadLine(), Console.Read(), and Console.ReadKey(). What is the difference between them? Do the same with  Console.Write(), and Console.WriteLIne()?

Day 5: Type Conversion: Implicit and Explicit Conversion (Convert.to() and Parse()

• Introduction to Windows Forms
• Common Windows Form Controls and Properties 
• Coding the Exit Button
• Linking between two forms. Open a form with a button click
• Converting Integer to String
• Converting String to Integer (Int.parse(), Convert.to..() )
• Converting to Decimal
• Converting to Other Data Types
• Rounding Decimal Numbers
• Difference between Float, Decimal, Double and Single

Home Work 5 : Write a program that asks the user of his name and age. Then it would display: “Your name is …. and you are ….. years old.

Day 6: Handling Date and Time Data Types

• Using DateTime type
• Creating an new date using the DateTime constructor
• Declaring date data type
• Converting to a date using Convert.toDateTime() Converting Date to a Strings (ToString, ShortString, LongString etc)
• Getting Today’s date and time Extracting Day, Month and Year from Date
• About TimeSpan Data Type for date and time

Home Work 6: Design a Form that allows the user to select a date. The form would contain a button. When the user clicks on the button, the system would show the Day, Month and the Year. You form should look like the one shown below.

Day 7: Operators in C#

• Arithmetic Operators
• Relational Operators
• Logical Operators
• Bitwise Operators
• Assignment Operators
• Other Operators

Homework 7: Write a simple menu-based console calculator. The calculator will display a menu that allows user to select an operation. Then user is prompted to enter first and second operand. Then the result is calculated and displayed.

Day 8: If/Else and Switch Statement

• If Statement in single line
• If Statement in multiline
• If/else statement
• Nested If statements
• Switch statement
• The ?: operator in C#

Homework 8: Write a program that displays a grade to an input entered by the user. The grade is assigned as follows: 70-100: Excellent, 60-70: Good, 50-59:Average, 40-49:Fair, 30-40: Poor, 0-29:Fail.

Day 9: Loops in C#

• The While Loop 
• For Loop 
• Do…While Loop 
• Nested Loops 
• Inserting Loops using Snippets 

Homework 9: Write a console program to (a) Calculate the Sum and Average of numbers between 1 and 100 and display the result (b) Print the Fibonacci Sequence it 1,2,3,5,8,13,….. (c) Write a program the accepts a number n from the user and calculates the sum of numbers from 1 to n.

Day 10: Access Specifiers in C#

• The public keyword 
• The Private keyword Instantiating a Class (Creating object of class) 
• Deriving a class 
• Protected keyword 

Day 11: Arrays and Lists

• What are arrays. 
• Declaring Arrays 
• Initializing Arrays 
• Accessing Array Elements

Day 12: String Manipulation

• String Data Type String or string? 
• Formatting a method to produce a string 
• Properties of a string Comparing Strings 
• Checking if String contains another String 
• Retrieving Substring from string 
• Joining strings together (Concatenation) 

Homework 12: Create a application that takes a users Firstname and Lastname and then separates it into Firstname and Lastname

Day 13: Inheritance: Classes and Subclasses

• Creating a New Class
• Properties and Methods
• Instantiating a Class(Creating an object of a class)
• Types of Constructors Destructors
• What is Inheritance
• Deriving a Class

Day 14: Working With Various Web Controls

• About WebForms
• Setting Properties of Buttons, Labels and Textboxes
• Using a Listbox and dropdownList
• What are CSS Files
• Attaching a CSS File to a Webform
• Working With Radio Buttons
• Working with Checkboxes
• Working with Calendar Control

Day 15: The Static keyword

• What is a Static class
• What is a static method?
• Static Members of a Class

Day 16: Polymorphism in C#

• What is Polymorphism
• Function Overloading
• Operator Overloading
• Abstract Classes

Day 17: Overloading
What is Overloading
Types of Overloading
Operator overloading Examples

Day 18: Multiple inheritance and Interfaces

• What is Multiple Inheritance?
• What are Interfaces and What are they used for
• Declaring Interfaces

Day 19: Abstract Classes and Class Library

• What is an Abstract Class
• What is a Class Library
• Abstract Class Demo

Day 20: Namespaces and Preprocessor directives

• What are namespaces?
• The System namespace Defining namespaces in C# 
• What is a pre-processor directive 
• The #define directive

Day 21: Regular Expressions

• What are regular Expressions 
• Defining regular expressions
• Writing regular expressions

 Day 22: Handling Errors and Exceptions

• Keywords for Exception
• Handling Exception Handling
• Syntax Creating User-defined exceptions

Day 23: Reading and Writing to Files

• I/O Classes in C#
• The FileStream class
• Reading a text file and displaying to the output

Day 24: Connecting to Databases

• Connecting to a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet
• Connecting to a Microsoft Access Database
• Connecting to MySQL Database
• Connecting to MS SQL Database Final Course Project

Project 1: Create an image browser application. This application would have buttons: First, Last, Next and Previous. And would display images in a directory. Next Step: Advanced ASP.NET C# in 24 days

Project 2: Creating a Simple Website in ASP.Net