C# Fundamentals for Beginners

Classic Throwback Series with Bob Tabor | Originally published in 2019

C# is a powerful and widely used programming language that you can use to make websites, games, mobile apps, desktop apps and more with .NET. In this video, Bob Tabor shows you the tools, how to write code, debug features, explore customizations, and more.

00:00:00 – Start
00:00:09 – Course Introduction
00:08:08 – Installing Visual Studio
00:13:50 – Creating Your First C# Program
00:30:22 – Understanding Your First C# Program
00:47:24 – Working with Code Files, Projects, and Solutions
00:58:50 – Understanding Data Types and Variables
01:26:53 – The if Decision Statement
01:50:24 – Operators, Expressions, and Statements
02:05:36 – for Iteration Statement
02:24:04 – Understanding Arrays
02:41:42 – Defining and Calling Methods
03:12:51 – While Iteration Statement
03:30:54 – Working with Strings
03:54:24 – Working with Dates and Times
04:04:51 – Understanding Classes
04:28:47 – More About Classes and Methods
05:03:16 – Understanding Scope and Accessibility Modifiers
05:20:02 – Understanding Namespaces and Working with the .NET Class Library
05:37:46 – Creating and Adding References to Assemblies
05:58:06 – Working with Collections
06:21:21 – Working with LINQ
06:45:48 – Enumerations and the Switch Decision Statement
06:58:58 – Gracefully Handling Exceptions
07:20:02 – Understanding Events and Event-Driven Programming
07:40:58 – Where to Go from Here

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[rezvlt]

Almost 3 years later and I'm a software engineer now. Thank you so much Bob!

[draganpavlovic]

Thank you bob for explaining this to me like i'm 6y old! Keep it going!!!

[jamesbarker]

I've purchased Bob's C# fundamentals course on his site after watching this series over 2 years ago, since then I've managed to complete the fundamentals course and I've moved into a programmer role in my work. I can honestly say that Bob is the best out there and I look forward to completing his other courses. Thank you Bob

[Alan_Dler]

I took this course on Microsoft visual academy several years ago. One of the best courses online. Thank you, Mr. Tabor. I only wish Microsoft and Mr. Tabor make a more advance level tutorial.

[lilosSso]

This is amazing. I've been looking to learn C# for a while and every course out there assumes you have some knowledge in programming and treats you like you're supposed to know what they're talking about. I have zero experience in programming, and I want the course to treat me like a 5 year old trying to learn 1+1 in order for me to understand absolute basic concepts. Which this course amazingly does. Thank you so much!

[jordanhwang]

I just finished all 8 hours of the course! I'm so grateful that this course is available for everyone. Bob is incredibly articulate as an instructor and I can't thank him enough!

[davepazooki]

Wow! I learned C# for the first time from Bob video's more than 18 years ago. Good to see he is still out there!

[dashnero]

I am a beginner of the C# programming and I find a lot of tutorials on YouTube, I think this tutor is the best for the real beginner. Thank u!

[chrisp]

Started working through this before starting college for computer science where our intro to programming classes are taught in C# and it has helped so much. Thank you!

[umut]

This was my first programming tutorial back in 2016 while I was in high school. I am where I am because of this video. Thank you.

[nothereyetwait]

You make it very understandable and explain very well if I feel like I don’t get or understand what you said you always clear it up! In simpler terms which is a tremendous help!

[Jupidness]

Bob. All I can say, is Thank You. The last video felt like you were speaking right to me. I'm self taught and changed careers. Thanks for this course!

[dinaslens]

This has been a brilliant resource! Not too slow paced, not too fast, thank you so much!

[aldrinseanpereira]

Thank you for the explanation and advice beyond what any regular tutorial offers!

You have truly put a lot of experience, knowledge, time and effort into making this

I'm an advanced beginner but still stuck around for this tutorial.

So far I absolutely love how you explained in extreme detail, how to save, create and open code files on windows. There are really very few resources that show this.

Although the course is slow, I still stuck around learning C# bit by bit and coding the example code by myself in Visual Studio ... there was no downloadable code sample here but it was no showstopper


once again, THANK YOU!

[Tess_m]

I've been practicing coding for about a month now, going in not knowing ANYTHING. i invested in a computer and multi screens, I've watched 2 other people's videos for hours theirs were good, i pretty much know the basic's now and i could build a basic game and a functional calculator etc. i'm a fast learner, i'm already practicing coding something advanced i guess to me lol and ATM.... just for fun but i WISHED i found your video first. the way you explain everything is perfect!!, i'm only and hour in your video right now just to freshen my memory and after almost a month of dedication i already know what your talking about with out being confused like i was a month ago and man your a great teacher so detailed trying not to miss Thank you so much Mr.Tabor for making this video, looking forward to finishing this 8hr video.

For those people who never coded and have no idea coming in, if you practice and really put your mind too it you'll really understand everything and what he is saying. i came into this like omg i dont think i could do this but practice really makes perfect and im interested so i did it. Take it from me coming in as an extreme newbee. :)

[claraclara]

I wanted to take the time to say: Thank you!. Yes, you are right when you say that some people are interested in you because of your knowledge, BUT I'd like to highlight that some others are also interested in you because you are such a good human being. You transmit your knowledge in such a way that it is easy for me to understand, efficiently, and you do that with great love as well. Thanks again!

[ArrKayLondon]

I'm an intermediate python programmer and so much of this stuff I never learnt with Python because it's abstracted away. Very grateful to learn it now and more importantly learn why. Great course so far Bob.

[josegarcia]

Ive watched over 100 videos on how to code and bob tabor is #1. he is thorough and makes everything as simple as possible for beginners to understand.

[Saitama-nujf]

I started my career in software engineering years ago because of this guy. Thanks Bob.

[Jamie]

This is a very good tutorial, after an hour he'll really slow down and guide you on the introductory basics which are very easy to understand and also instill early on to tidy your code on how to use less code to get the same results and easy to read. Honestly really good.