C# 7.0 All-in-One For Dummies

Book 1

The Basics of C# Programming

Contents at a Glance

1. Chapter 1: Creating Your First C# Console Application
   1. Getting a Handle on Computer Languages, C#, and .NET
   2. Creating Your First Console Application
   3. Making Your Console App Do Something
   4. Reviewing Your Console Application
   5. Introducing the Toolbox Trick
2. Chapter 2: Living with Variability — Declaring Value-Type Variables
   1. Declaring a Variable
   2. What’s an int?
   3. Representing Fractions
   4. Handling Floating-Point Variables
   5. Using the Decimal Type: Is It an Integer or a Float?
   6. Examining the bool Type: Is It Logical?
   7. Checking Out Character Types
   8. What’s a Value Type?
   9. Comparing string and char
   10. Calculating Leap Years: DateTime
   11. Declaring Numeric Constants
   12. Changing Types: The Cast
   13. Letting the C# Compiler Infer Data Types
3. Chapter 3: Pulling Strings
   1. The Union Is Indivisible, and So Are Strings
   2. Performing Common Operations on a String
   3. Comparing Strings
   4. What If I Want to Switch Case?
   5. Looping through a String
   6. Searching Strings
   7. Getting Input from the Command Line
   8. Controlling Output Manually
   9. Formatting Your Strings Precisely
   10. StringBuilder: Manipulating Strings More Efficiently
4. Chapter 4: Smooth Operators
   1. Performing Arithmetic
   2. Performing Logical Comparisons — Is That Logical?
   3. Matching Expression Types at TrackDownAMate.com
5. Chapter 5: Getting into the Program Flow
   1. Branching Out with if and switch
   2. Here We Go Loop-the-Loop
   3. Looping a Specified Number of Times with for
   4. Nesting Loops
   5. Don’t goto Pieces
6. Chapter 6: Lining Up Your Ducks with Collections ...