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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)
20-22 Jan	09:30-16:30	Online	£1,295	Book
17-19 Mar	09:30-16:30	Online	£1,295	Book
19-21 May	09:30-16:30	Online	£1,295	Book
16-18 Jul	09:30-16:30	Online	£1,295	Book
17-19 Sep	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
547 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:

"The course content was excellent and easy to follow, led by a very personable trainer who knew his stuff!"

Hayden Bryon (Derby and Burton Hospitals NHS FT)

"I had a clear understanding of all the sections covered, as it was very well explained. An informative and well presented course."

Barbara Colquhoun (Syntor Fine Chemicals Ltd / Actylis)

"Lots of insights and useful tips in this course! A great instructor, very clear and to the point!"

Guillaume Riguidel (Live Nation (Music) UK Limited)

"Our trainer was brilliant and he was happy to help out with questions or queries we had. The course content was great, went at a good, fast pace and was perfect for what we needed. Feedback for other Wise Owl courses has always been good, the course fitted with what we needed and the ability to tailor it to our needs was a big bonus."

Michael Thompson (Frontline Ltd)

"This was perfect for what I needed. Content just right. I was slightly worried that it might be very dull, but it wasn't at all. Our trainer did an excellent job of making it interesting and engaging, keeping us all involved and answering various difficult questions. Felt both well prepared AND responsive. Pacing good too."

Matt Page (Institution of Occupational Safety and Health)

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