You're reading from Fundamentals for Self-Taught Programmers Embark on your software engineering journey without exhaustive courses and bulky tutorials

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801812115

Length 254 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

.NET

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Jasmine Greenaway

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Software Engineering Basics

2. Chapter 1: Defining Software Engineering FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: The Software Engineering Life Cycle

4. Chapter 3: Roles in Software Engineering

5. Part 2: Introduction to Programming

6. Chapter 4: Programming Languages and Introduction to C#

7. Chapter 5: Writing Your First C# Program

8. Chapter 6: Data Types in C#

9. Chapter 7: Flow Control in C#

10. Chapter 8: Introduction to Data Structures, Algorithms, and Pseudocode

11. Chapter 9: Applying Algorithms in C#

12. Chapter 10: Object-Oriented Programming

13. Part 3: Software Engineering – the Profession

14. Chapter 11: Stories from Prominent Job Roles in Software Development

15. Chapter 12: Coding Best Practices

16. Chapter 13: Tips and Tricks to Kickstart Your Software Engineering Career

17. Assessments

18. Index

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