Radek Vystavěl - C# Programming for Absolute Beginners. Learn to Think Like a Programmer and Start Writing Code

Welcome, dear reader, as you begin your journey to learn programming! Computers, tablets, mobile phones, and many other electronic devices are programmable and will do exactly what a human programmer tells them to do.

Programming is a world based entirely on logic. In this respect, it is quite unique among human activities. If you like logicfor example, you like solving puzzles or you are accustomed to searching for the meaningful order around youthen you will love programming.

In this book, you will create some real programs, and for this purpose, you need to learn a programming language , which is what gives the computer its instructions. Programming languages provide the interaction between computers and humans. They are strict enough so that absolutely dumb computers can understand them, and yet they are human enough so that programmers can write code using them.

Over time, many programming languages have been created, and many are in use today. Each language has its virtues and drawbacks.

For this book, I have chosen the C# programming language, which is my number-one language both for professional development and for teaching. Its about 20 years old, which means its creators could avoid the known flaws of older languages when developing it. In addition, it is now a time-proven language, not to be readily replaced by some new fashion.

C# is actually the flagship language of Microsoft. It is quite universalyou can use it to write a variety of programs ranging from traditional console and desktop applications through websites and services to mobile development, both for business and for entertainment. Originally born on Windows, it has been quickly spreading onto other platforms in recent yearssuch as Linux, Mac, Android, and iOS.

I hope you will have a good time with it and you will find many uses for it in your future professional/hobby life!

The book is primarily intended for those who have no or only a limited knowledge of programming. To get the most from this book, you should be skillful with computersyou should be able to install a program, know what a file or a folder is, and so on.

However, because of the books deep coverage of the topics included, you may also benefit from the book if you are an intermediate programmer or someone who has already mastered another programming language and want to start with C#. You will simply proceed faster through the book than absolute beginners.