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C# Programming (Languages in Depth series)

Bertrand Meyer and Lisa (Ling) Liu, Summer Semester 2007

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Announcements

30 May 2007	Add slides for database and link for implementing transposition table.
29 May 2007	Add slides for multithreading exercise.
15 May 2007	Add slides for lecture 10 and the link for C# unit test tool csUnit.
15 May 2007	Add samplecodes for lecture 8 and reflection exercise slides.
10 May 2007	Add slides for lecture 8.
3 May 2007	Add slides for lecture 7.
2 May 2007	Add sample codes for lecture 6 and the exercise slides.
17 April 2007	Add slides for lecture 5 and the technique points in assignment1.
12 April 2007	Add slides for lecture 4.
4 April 2007	Add slides for lecture 3, first assignment of the project and C# code style .
26 March 2007	Update the slides for lecture 2.
22 March 2007	Add the link for C# programming tools. Take a look at the decompiler tools, very interesting!
21 March 2007	Add slides for "C# fundamentals".
19 March 2007	Beta version of the C# Basics course material online. Added also the program.
19 March 2007	The course will start on the 22nd of March (9:00 - 12:00;IFW F 21) as scheduled. As an exception, instead of an exercise a lecture will be held on that day. The corresponding exercise will be held during a following lecture.

Description

Title and Code

C# Programming (Languages in Depth series)
Course code: 251-0290-00

People

Prof. Dr. Bertrand Meyer, Dr. Lisa (Ling) Liu, Fuchs Thomas, Nicolas Blanc

Scope

The course aims to deliver the approach to programming in C# that encompasses the concept of foundation syntax, GUI programming, thread, database and Web applications.

Course Book

Judith Bishop & Nigel Horspool C# Concisely, Addison Wesley, 2004 ISBN 0 321 15418 5

Other (recommended) books:

Andrew Troelsen: Pro C# 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform, Third Edition, Apress, 2005, ISBN 1-59059-419-3

Prerequisites

Knowledge of another Object-Oriented programming language is mandatory for understanding this course.

Topics

C# Basics.
Visual Studio development platform.
Generics.
GUI programming.
Files and streams.
Threads.
Database.
Web application.
.NET assembly.

The literature for presentations covering those topics is given below.

Schedule

Thursdays 9:00 - 11:00, IFW F 21
Thursdays 11:00 - 12:00, IFW F 21

Office hours: by appointment, RZ-J9.

Lectures program

Date	Lecture	Topic	Documentation
Thu. 22.03	1	Introduction of C# and .NET	[Slides]
Thu. 29.03	2	C# language fundamentals	[Slides] [SampleCodes]
Thu. 05.04	3	OO programming with C#	[Slides] [SampleCodes]
Thu. 12.04	4	Exception	[Slides] [SampleCodes]
Thu. 19.04	5	Delegates and GUI	[Slides]
Thu. 26.04	6	Generics	[Slides] [SampleCodes]
Thu. 03.05	7	.NET assembly, type reflection, attribute-based programming	[Slides]
Thu. 10.05	8	Threads	[Slides] [Pipeline(without interrupt)] [Pipeline(with interrupt)]
Thu. 17.05	9	public holiday, no lecture
Thu. 24.05	10	Threads2	[Slides]
Thu. 31.05	11	Database (1)	[Slides]
Thu. 07.06	12	Database (2)	[Slides]
Thu. 14.06	13	Web applications with ASP.NET	[Slides]
Thu. 21.06	14	XML web services	[Slides]

Exercises (Tentative)

Thursday 29 March	Visual Studio Tutorial
Thursday 5 April	C# Basics
Thursday 12 April	MinMax
Thursday 17 April	Technique Points
Thursday 26 April	Command pattern & GDI SampleCodes rook.gif
Thursday 3 May	Generics SimpleGenerics
Thursday 10 May	reflection slides reflection examples
Thursday 24 May	multithreading slides BackgroundWorker examples
Thursday 31 May	Serialization sample codes
Thursday 21 June	Web Service Slides example codes

Exam

The exam for C# programming is to deliver the source code and documents for the given project specifition. More precise information on the project will be announced here.

The project includes three assignments. Except the first assignment, each assignment should reuse the results of former assignments.

Generate HTML document from C# code (provided by Jan-Filip Zaqalak)

Assignment1 Code Delivery Requirement Test cases

Assignment2 FAQ regarding assignment2 Input chess files

Assignment1 Grading Criteria Test cases and test script

Assignment2 Grading Criteria

Assignment3