C# for Sharp Kids

Writing programs is Fun! This e-book will have you coding your very own C# programs in no time! With fun cartoons and easy to follow code samples, you'll be creating your own inventions in no time! The book is divided into 5 Parts:

Part I – Getting Started

• Introduction
• Software You'll Need
• Formatting Standards Used in this Book
• What's Next?

Part II – Learning to Communicate

• A Shared View of The World: The Alien, the Elephant and the Coconut Tree
• Computers Are Just Like Aliens
• The Object-Oriented Approach Summarized
• Classes
• Objects
• Fields and Their Types
• Types
• How to Use Fields
• Methods
• More About Methods
• Parameters
• Methods that Send Values Back
• Public, Private and Protected Methods
• Constructor Methods
• Events
• The Button Click Event
• Mouse Events
• Name Spaces
• Inheritance

Part III – The C# Language

• Vocabulary
• Some General Grammar Rules
• Capital and Small Letters
• Statements
• Code Blocks - Grouping Statements Together
• Comments - Helping the Humans Out
• Indenting Your Code
• Variables
• Operators
• Converting Between Types
• Branching
• Looping
• The For Loop
• The While Loop
• Whole Program Structure
• Using Class Libraries

Part IV – Programming with the .NET Framework

• System.Console
• System.Windows.Forms
• System.Drawing
• System.Data
• System.Xml

Part V – Beyond This Book