C# Programming Crash Course (dotnet-script)

Welcome to this comprehensive C# Crash Course for Beginners! This course is designed to give you a solid foundation in modern C# and the .NET ecosystem. We'll begin by exploring what C# is, where it is used in the industry, and how to set up your development environment by installing the .NET SDK and configuring .NET Script for rapid development and experimentation. Using a combination of presentation slides, practical demonstrations, and live coding examples, we'll gradually move from fundamental programming concepts to more advanced features of the language. Topics covered include: 00:00 Introduction 00:40 Presentation 05:07 Installing and configuring .NET 05:50 dotnet commands 07:30 Hello, World! 08:37 App demo for follow-up tutorial 11:11 Using the .NET CLI and .NET Script 11:57 Printing to console 12:34 Variable declaration and data types 19:30 String interpolation 23:08 Arithmetic Operators and expressions 23:56 Comparison operators 25:47 Logical Operators 27:19 Conditional statements (if, else) 29:34 Loops (for, foreach, while) 23:57 Methods and functions 36:05 Arrays and collections 37:37 Lists, Dictionaries and HashSets 43:13 LINQ fundamentals 50:36 Classes / objects / Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles 55:20 Records and modern C# features 56:30 Pattern Matching You'll also see a demonstration of a practical application that will be developed in a future tutorial series, giving you a preview of how these concepts come together in a real-world project. Please note that asynchronous programming with async and await is intentionally not covered in this lesson. These concepts deserve a dedicated tutorial where they can be explored in greater depth and with practical examples. By the end of this course, you'll understand the core building blocks of C# development and be ready to continue your journey into more advanced topics and real-world applications.