C# For Technical Writers: Reading Assignments

Week 1

Pages	Section
2 - 14	(Optional) C# and .Net 2.0; Examining Your First Program
16 - 40	Visual Studio 2005 (skim)
43 - 45	Types
46	(Optional) Types and Compiler Errors
56	Whitespace
59-60	The Assignment Operator (=)

Week 2

Pages	Section
303-304	(Optional) Escape characters; Verbatim Strings
47-49	Variables; Definite Assignment; WriteLine() [sidebar]
60-62	Mathematical Operators
104-113	(Optional) Object-oriented programming
115-118	Classes and Objects [introductory section]; Instantiating Objects

Note: We will not cover the increment and decrement operators (pp 62-64)

Week 3

Pages	Section
65-66	Relational Operators; Use of Logical Operators with Conditionals
72	Branching [introductory section]
75-76	if Statements
76-79	(Optional) Single-Statement if Blocks; Brace Styles [side bar]
82-84	(Optional) Nested if statements
81	if ... else Statements
89	Iteration (Looping) Statements [introductory section]
91-92	The while Loop

Note: We will not cover switch statements (pp 84-88) or goto statements (pp 89-90).

Week 4

Pages	Section
52-54	Enumerations
280-282	(Optional) Generic Lists: List<T> (see Note)
179	(Optional) The foreach statement
107	Defining a Class
115-120	Defining Classes [esp p.116]

Note: In this course, I present the List class without formally describing it. (In particular, I do not cover generics.) Nearly every computer program uses some type of collection; without them, we are restricted to extremely trivial programs. However, the specific language features used to implement them are not so important.

The textbook takes a more traditional approach, introducing arrays, interfaces, and foreach loops before the chapter on collections.

Week 5

Pages	Section

121-127	Access Modifiers; Method Arguments; Constructors; Initializers
127	(Optional) The this Keyword
128-133	Static and Instance Methods
236-242	Interfaces
135-140	(Optional) Memory Allocation: The Stack Versus the Heap

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