Learn to Code with C#

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1 Learn to Code with C# Getting Started with Microsoft's Cross-Platform, Open Source Language

2 Who am I? Jeff Ammons Microsoft MVP Pluralsight Author CEO/Chief Instructor at Code Career Academy 25 Years Professional Experience in Software

3 What is C#?

4 General Purpose Programming Language

5 Strongly Typed

6 Object Oriented

7 Kinda functional

8 Cross-Platform

9 Write or Run On: Windows Mac Linux

10 With Xamarin Compile to Native: ios Android

11 Why do I love C#?

12 Reach

13 Tooling

14 Visual Studio Super helpful tool I think of it as my AI companion when coding I remember the big stuff It remembers the little details Resharper makes it even more helpful

15 Strong Typing Lets Visual Studio know if I'm screwing up! Lets VS make accurate suggestions

16 Advanced Capabilities

17 Some Advanced Stuff C# is Good At Asynchronous Programming Async/Await Parallel Programming Do multiple things at once Generics Gives us some of the benefits of a dynamic language but with strong types Functional Programming Delegates, Linq, and Lambdas

18 Mary Had a Little Lambda If it weren't for bad jokes, I'd have no jokes at all

19 Jobs!

20 How Many Jobs in Our Area? Web development (server side or back-end) Node.js JavaScript Java EE Java ASP.NET C# Ruby on Rails Ruby Python PHP Various others with less market share

21 How Many Jobs in Our Area? Web development (server side or back-end) Node.js JavaScript (Node = 44, JavaScript = 178) Java EE Java (Java = 146) ASP.NET C# (.Net = 143) Ruby on Rails Ruby (Ruby on Rails = 23) Python = 54 PHP = 33 Various others with less market share

22 What we'll build tonight

23 Can We Build It? Console (command line) app Windows WPF app Web app

24 How Can I Learn More?

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26 The Tools We ll Use Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Community Edition Visual Studio Community For Mac

27 What To Bring Notebook Windows Mac Linux Install Visual Studio Community Edition Or Visual Studio for Mac ahead of time if possible Install Visual Studio Code is possible

28 And now a word from our sponsor

29 And now a word from our sponsor Me!

30 And now a word from our sponsor Me! Well, my company: Code Career Academy Coding Bootcamp

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33 What Do I Teach? Continuing Ed Courses 3 Weeks/18 hours One evening per week and half a day on the weekend Introduction to C# -- June 15 Thursdays from 6:30 to 9:30 Saturdays from 2:00 to 5:00

34 What Do I Teach? Full Stack Web Development Introduction to Web Development (3 Weeks, Optional) Front-End Web Development Back-End Development with C# and the Microsoft Stack Data and Advanced Topics

35 How Do I Teach? I offer two options: Full time: 40 hrs/week for 18 weeks Part time: 10 hrs/week: 2 evenings ~3 hours each plus 4 hours on Saturday for 24 weeks ~Same content, but with part time you do more of the projects at home Hybrid: Saturdays are in-person Weeknights are in-person or remote

36 Options for Learning C# Continuing Ed 3 Weeks, 6 hrs/wk - $950 $850 Full-Stack Web Developer Part-Time 24 Weeks, 10 hrs/wk - $8,900 $8,700 Full-Stack Web Developer Full-Time 18 Weeks, 40 hrs/wk - $14,900 $13,900

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