Description
Book SynopsisAbout our authors
Tony Gaddis is the principal author of the Starting Out With series of textbooks. Tony has nearly two decades of experience teaching computer science courses, primarily at Haywood Community College. He is a highly acclaimed instructor who was previously selected as the North Carolina Community College Teacher of the Year and has received the Teaching Excellence award from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development. The Starting Out With series includes introductory books covering C++, JavaTM, Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft C#, Python, Programming Logic and Design, Alice, and App Inventor, all published by Pearson.
Table of ContentsBrief Contents
- Introduction to Computers and Programming
- Introduction to Visual C#
- Processing Data
- Making Decisions
- Loops, Files, and Random Numbers
- Modularizing Your Code with Methods
- Arrays and Lists
- Text Processing
- Structures, Enumerated Types, and Dictionaries
- Introduction to Classes
- Inheritance, Polymorphism, and Interfaces
- Databases
- Delegates, Anonymous Methods, and Lambda Expressions
- Language-Integrated Query (LINQ)
Appendix A C# Primitive Data Types Appendix B Additional User Interface Controls Appendix C ASCII/Unicode Characters Appendix D Answers to Checkpoint Questions Appendix E Installing LINQ to SQL Classes in Visual Studio
