Head First C#, 2nd Edition

Chapter 12. Review and Preview: Knowledge, power, and building cool stuff

Learning’s no good until you BUILD something.

Until you’ve actually written working code, it’s hard to be sure if you really get some of the tougher concepts in C#. In this chapter, we’re going to use what we’ve learned to do just that. We’ll also get a preview of some of the new ideas coming up soon. And we’ll do all that by building phase I of a really complex application to make sure you’ve got a good handle on what you’ve already learned from earlier chapters. So buckle up...it’s time to build some software!

You’ve come a long way, baby

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[note from human resources: “baby” is no longer politically correct. Please use age-challenged or infant to avoid offending readers.]

We’ve come a long way since we first used the IDE to help us rescue the Objectville Paper Company. Here’s just a few of the things you’ve done over the last several hundred pages:

We’ve also become beekeepers

Back in Chapter 6, we built some bee classes. Remember these?

But we can do a lot better now...

You’ve learned a lot since Chapter 6, though. So ...