C# Intermediate – Blended Learning

Overview

Blended Learning – the best of both ways to learn.

Combining the best of digital and live learning, with access to world-class industry experts, this course is suitable for those looking to continue a journey in Microsoft-based programming with C#, one of the industry’s most popular programming languages. You will learn everything you need to know to be able to develop fully functional C# applications, whilst also appreciating supporting concepts around development, such as source control. exception handling, OOP techniques and best practice.

Prerequisites

In order to attend this course learners must understand the fundamentals of programming in C#. The required level of knowledge can be achieved by attending QA’s ‘C# Foundations’ (QACSFUND-BL) course.

Target Audience

In summary, this course is for IT professionals who already have a fundamental understanding of how to write and manipulate simple C# applications and want to dig more deeply into Object Oriented Programming and the benefits it can bring. It will also be a good fit for professionals who have ample experience in an OOP-based programming language, such as Java or Python, who are looking to upskill with a new programming language.

Objectives

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

• create and use classes and structures (types), including fields, properties, methods, delegates, and events.
• use private, internal, protected, and public visibility modifiers.
• use exception handling to create robust applications.
• create derived classes that inherit from custom-written or .NET classes.
• create interfaces and apply techniques of polymorphism effectively and appropriately.
• work with generic types.
• leverage the power of C# features.
• use delegates
• use lambda expressions in C# code.
• use LINQ (Language Integrated Query).
• Access SQL databases using the Entity Framework

Outline

• Module 1: Using classes for data objects – review
• Module 2: Inheritance
• Module 3: Abstract classes and interfaces.
• Module 4: Delegates, Lambdas and LINQ
• Module 5: Accessing Databases using the Entity Framework
• Module 6: Exception Handling

Delivery Method

This Blended Learning course consists of two key stages.

Self-Paced Learning

• Up to 12 hours, completed over a 4-week period prior to the live event.
• It is recommended that learners have a minimum of 4 weeks between the course booking and the instructor-led live event to complete the 12 hours of learning.
• The self-paced learning is available 4 weeks prior to the live event and for 12 months following the live event.

Instructor-Led Live Event

• This course has a 1-day live event.
• It is critical that the self-paced learning is completed prior to joining the live event.