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3-day fast track C# training course

Three days (09:30 to 16:30 UK time each day)

This course is available in the following formats (all prices exclude VAT):

Classroom (London)
£1,895

Classroom (Manchester)
£1,595

Onsite (your office)
Please ask

Online (your home)
£1,295

You can book a place on this course either online through this website, by phone, by email or by filling in our enquiry form.

You don't need any programming experience to attend this course (although if you've used other languages this will be useful), but you do need to be a quick learner. If you strugged with maths at school this probably isn't the right course for you!

Course schedule

Here are our next few Fast track C# course dates:

Dates	Times	Venue	Price (excl. VAT)
12-14 Jun	09:30-16:30	Online	£1,295	Book
19-21 Aug	09:30-16:30	Online	£1,295	Book
21-23 Oct	09:30-16:30	Online	£1,295	Book
20-22 Jan	09:30-16:30	Online	£1,295	Book
17-19 Mar	09:30-16:30	Online	£1,295	Book
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Got a handful of like-minded people in your organisation? You could consider booking your own customised onsite course, whereby you get to pick the dates and venue!

Course Contents - PDF

Fast track C# - Course Contents

Our three-day fast-track C# course is designed to get you up and running as a C# programmer. You'll learn all of the basics (creating variables, testing conditions, looping), but you will also have time to get onto crucial advanced concepts like creating classes and using entity frameworks and LINQ to get information out of databases. You should only consider attending this course if you are comfortable learning quickly and intensively.

This fast-track course combines topics from the following other Wise Owl courses:

From our INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL C# course

Creating forms

Drawing controls
Formatting forms

Coding form events

Forms and their events
The two event arguments

Laying out your code

Commenting out code
Using regions

C# variables

Creating and using variables
The types of variable

Enumerations and constants if time

Enumerations
Constants

Conditions

Using IF and ELSE
The SWITCH statement

Modular code

Passing arguments
Writing functions

Arrays

Using arrays
Splitting text

Looping

Looping n times
WHILE loops
Looping over collections

Files and folders

Stream readers and writers
The USING statement
FileInfo and DirectoryInfo

Debugging and trapping errors

The TRY clause
Stepping through code
Setting breakpoints

Using lists

Populating lists
Finding items

Properties in C#

RO, WO and RW properties
Coding properties

From our INTERMEDIATE C# course

Designing classes

The domestic cat object
Properties and methods
Encapsulation and exposure

Creating classes

Using namespaces
Creating constructors
Fields, properties and methods
Static members

The form as a class

Partial classes
InitalizeComponent method
Instantiating forms

Data structures

Generics
Arrays
Lists, stacks and queues
Dictionaries

Overloading if time

Overloaded methods
Overloading constructors

LINQ theory

Extension methods
Ienumerability
Query vs. method syntax

Writing LINQ

Arrays, lists and data tables
Criteria and ordering
Using LET expressions

Advanced LINQ if time

Projecting data
Anonymous types
Forcing query execution
Taking and skipping

Types of model

Code first
Model first
Database first

Entity Frameworks

Creating entity data models
Data contexts
Updating models

LINQ with Entity Frameworks

Creating a data context
Selecting data using LINQ
Using relationships (associations)
Adding, editing and deleting

Advanced LINQ with EF if time

Returning anonymous types
Using stored procedures
Extending (partial classes)

Grouping using LINQ if time

IGrouping and IEnumerable
Grouping keys
Group into and ordering
Using multiple keys

Why Choose Us?

Here are some reasons to choose Wise Owl courses:

No more than 6 people per class
575 references viewable online
Free USB stick containing course files
Genuine Wise Owl trainers only
Unbelievably good courseware

In addition, here are some benefits unique to classroom training:

Proper restaurant lunch included

And some benefits specific to online training:

Courseware manual posted to you in advance
Free half-hour pre-course check-up included
Our clever system means you can use our laptops (and we can see them)

What other people have said

Our thanks to everyone who agreed to share their thoughts. All of the following reviews are from the last 3 calendar years:

"Our trainer was brilliant. Very patient and very knowledgeable, could answer all of our questions. I have used Power BI but everything I know is self taught. I wanted to check that I was doing things the right way and find some useful tips and tricks."

Chris Powell (Homes England)

"The training was really useful and delivered excellently. Our trainer was patient and a very obvious Excel genius, it was a fantastic learning experience. The pre-course check was also really helpful and there was great communication from the team leading up to and during the content delivery. Thank you very much!"

Varsha Vijay (PricewaterhouseCoopers)

"It was a great introductory course at a good pace. I had no prior SQL knowledge and found it really useful. It's good that we could copy over the exercises at the end of the course to enable us to practice in our own time. Our trainer was very friendly and approachable"

Cheryl Walker (APSE Manchester)

"I thought the course was superb. The content delivery and the accessibility to all was really impressive, having the exercises to work through during the course helped consolidate the knowledge. The content was really easy to follow and if we were ever stuck, were given the confidence to feel like we could ask for help. I have been on multiple different training courses with different providers and I can honestly say the course was delivered by the best trainer I have ever had. The passion he has for teaching and helping others learn was clearly on show and was so refreshing and great to see. Throughout both days he made you feel so welcome and that no question was a stupid question, he was always there to help and guide you through any problems we had and overall he was just amazing, I couldn't have asked for any more and he went above and beyond my expectations for the course and what I would gain from it. "

Cameron Daulby (Ifor Williams Trailers Ltd)

"Great course and customer service from Wise Owl throughout, from pre-course checks to the course itself. I had been given a new laptop from work and it was no trouble for the team at Wise Owl to promptly arrange a self check prior to my course. The course itself was very informative and trainer was patient and answered any questions we had. Thank you."

Emily Knight (Halton Borough Council)

There are lots more where these came from (or just refresh this page to change the quotes shown).

How our training courses work

Below are some notes on how Wise Owl courses work, to help you decide whether they're for you or not.

What you'll need

If you book on a classroom course, the only thing you need to bring to the course is ... yourself! We even provide a notepad and a suprisingly nice pen for you to take notes with.

For online training you'll need two things:

A good internet connection (otherwise you'll have a frustrating time); and
A second screen (a requirement, not a nice-to-have!)

You can see full details of our online course requirements here.

When you book a place

If you book a place on one of our courses:

For classroom courses we will send out a joining email. That's it!
For online courses we will get in touch to organise a half-hour pre-course check to iron out any connection problems before the course (rather than during it).

Whatever type of course you book, we will also send you out a reminder a few days before the course is due to take place - not that (we hope) you'll have forgotten!

What you won't need

For classroom training, you won't need a computer - we (obviously) will provide that. However, you're welcome to use your own laptop if you prefer, providing that you have the correct software installed.

For online training you will need a computer, but you won't need to have any software installed. This is because you'll use Windows Remote Desktop to connect to our computers, and these will have all of the necessary files and software installed.

The start of the course

For online courses you will be able to join up to half an hour before the course begins. This will give you time to:

familiarise yourself with the set-up;
meet your trainer; and
get to know the other delegates!

For classroom training it's always nice if people arrive a bit early too, to give people time to meet each other (and drink coffee).

You'll be given a full colour courseware manual, an exercise booklet to go with the course and a USB stick for taking course files away (we'll post all this to you for online courses).

After the course

After the course finishes you'll receive a digital certificate proving your attendance (we will gladly send a paper copy on request also).

We don't have any formal arrangement for answering questions after the course, but if you get stuck on something and email your trainer they should (and nearly always do!) respond as quickly as their training schedule allows.

Related Courses

You might like to consider these related courses:

Introduction to Visual C#

Introduction

2 day course

Intermediate C#

Intermediate