You're reading from Learn C# Programming A guide to building a solid foundation in C# language for writing efficient programs

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789805864

Length 636 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Authors (4):

Raffaele Rialdi

Ankit Sharma

Prakash Tripathi

Marius Bancila

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Starting with the Building Blocks of C#

2. Chapter 2: Data Types and Operators FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Control Statements and Exceptions

4. Chapter 4: Understanding the Various User-Defined Types

5. Chapter 5: Object-Oriented Programming in C#

6. Chapter 6: Generics

7. Chapter 7: Collections

8. Chapter 8: Advanced Topics

9. Chapter 9: Resource Management

10. Chapter 10: Lambdas, LINQ, and Functional Programming

11. Chapter 11: Reflection and Dynamic Programming

12. Chapter 12: Multithreading and Asynchronous Programming

13. Chapter 13: Files, Streams, and Serialization

14. Chapter 14: Error Handling

15. Chapter 15: New Features of C# 8

16. Chapter 16: C# in Action with .NET Core 3

17. Chapter 17: Unit Testing

18. Assessments

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Understanding OOP

Object-oriented programming is a paradigm that allows us to write a program around objects. As discussed in the previous chapter, objects contain data and methods to act on that data. Each object has its own set of data and methods. If an object wants to access the data of another object, it has to access it via the methods defined in that object. An object can inherit the properties of another object using the concept of inheritance. Hence, we can say that object-oriented programming is organized around data and the operations that are permitted on the data.

C# is a general-purpose multi-paradigm programming language. OOP is only one of these paradigms. Other supported paradigms, such as generic and functional programming, will be discussed in later chapters.

When discussing object-oriented programming, it is important to understand the differences between classes and objects. As mentioned already, in the previous chapter, a class is a blueprint that defines...