You're reading from Learn C# Programming A guide to building a solid foundation in C# language for writing efficient programs

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789805864

Length 636 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Authors (4):

Raffaele Rialdi

Ankit Sharma

Prakash Tripathi

Marius Bancila

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Starting with the Building Blocks of C#

2. Chapter 2: Data Types and Operators FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Control Statements and Exceptions

4. Chapter 4: Understanding the Various User-Defined Types

5. Chapter 5: Object-Oriented Programming in C#

6. Chapter 6: Generics

7. Chapter 7: Collections

8. Chapter 8: Advanced Topics

9. Chapter 9: Resource Management

10. Chapter 10: Lambdas, LINQ, and Functional Programming

11. Chapter 11: Reflection and Dynamic Programming

12. Chapter 12: Multithreading and Asynchronous Programming

13. Chapter 13: Files, Streams, and Serialization

14. Chapter 14: Error Handling

15. Chapter 15: New Features of C# 8

16. Chapter 16: C# in Action with .NET Core 3

17. Chapter 17: Unit Testing

18. Assessments

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