Learn C# programming in a Windows environment using Visual Studio. Develop skills in designing and writing simple C# computer programs using basic coding structures such as variables, constants, enumerations, decision-making statements, loops, arrays, methods and error handling. Learn how to use common Windows controls to provide input into an application. You’ll also get hands-on practice applying basic coding structures to common programming tasks by creating new code and revising existing code.

• Windows Introduction and file management skills
• Basic Programming Essentials course or equivalent knowledge

Create assignment statements (using basic properties of the TextBox, Label, RadioButton, CheckBox, PictureBox and Button controls) by adding functionality into empty existing event procedure stubs.

• Create a Windows application with a Label control and Button controls that use assignment statements and a method to end the application
• Write code that uses the default properties of the TextBox, RadioButton, CheckBox and PictureBox controls to get input into an application.
• Use the help system to look up what action a particular method performs on a specific control

Use variables, constants, decision-making statements and try/catch blocks by creating event procedures for the Button controls.

• Code variables and constants into an application
• Set up error handling in an application through the use of try/catch blocks
• Code decision-making statements into an application
• Use debugging features to observe execution paths, and to observe and change values of variables and properties of controls

Create methods to eliminate duplicate code in existing event procedures of a given completed application.

• Create and call methods without parameters that do not return values
• Create and call methods without parameters that do return values
• Create and call methods with parameters

Apply loop statements, string methods and basic properties of the ListBox control by creating event procedures for the TextBox and Button controls.

• Apply a ListBox control to an application
• Code looping structures into an application
• Alter string values through the use of one or more methods
• Add a TextChanged event procedure for the TextBox control into an application