Philip Conrod - Visual C# For Kids: A Step by Step Computer Programming Tutorial

Visual C# For Kids

15th Edition

By
Philip Conrod & Lou Tylee

2017 Kidware Software LLC

Kidware Software LLC

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Maple Valley, WA 98038

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Copyright 2017 by Kidware Software LLC. All rights reserved

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Printed in the United States of America

ISBN-13: 978-1-937161-62-0 (electronic edition)

978-1-937161-70-5 (printed edition)

Previous edition published as Visual C# Express For Kids 12 th Edition

Cover Design by Stephanie Conrod

Copy Edit by Jessica Conrod

Illustrations by Kevin Brockschmidt

This copy of Visual C# For Kids and the associated software is licensed to a single user. Copies of the course are not to be distributed or provided to any other user. Multiple copy licenses are available for educational institutions. Please contact Kidware Software for school site license information.

This guide was developed for the course, Visual C# For Kids, produced by Kidware Software, Maple Valley, Washington. It is not intended to be a complete reference to the Visual C# language. Please consult the Microsoft website for detailed reference information.

This guide refers to several software and hardware products by their trade names. These references are for informational purposes only and all trademarks are the property of their respective companies and owners. Microsoft, Visual Studio, Small Basic, Visual Basic, Visual J#, and Visual C#, IntelliSense, Word, Excel, MSDN, and Windows are all trademark products of the Microsoft Corporation. Java is a trademark product of the Oracle Corporation.

The example companies, organizations, products, domain names, e-mail addresses, logos, people, places, and events depicted are fictitious. No association with any real company, organization, product, domain name, e-mail address, logo, person, place, or event is intended or should be inferred.

This book expresses the authors views and opinions. The information in this book is distributed on an "as is" basis, without and expresses, statutory, or implied warranties.

Neither the author(s) nor Kidware Software LLC shall have any liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss nor damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information contained in this book.

About The Authors

Philip Conrod has authored, co-authored and edited numerous computer programming books for kids, teens and adults. Philip holds a BS in Computer Information Systems and a Master's certificate in the Essentials of Business Development from Regis University. He also holds a Certificate in Programming for Business from WarrenTech. Philip has been programming computers since 1977. He has also held various Information Technology leadership roles in companies like Sundstrand Aerospace, Safeco Insurance Companies, FamilyLife, Kenworth Truck Company, PACCAR and Darigold Inc. In his spare time, Philip serves as the President & Publisher of Kidware Software, LLC. He is the proud father of three techie daughters and lives in Maple Valley, Washington.

Lou Tylee holds BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Electrical Engineering. Lou has been programming computers since 1969 when he took his first Fortran course in college. He has written software to control suspensions for high speed ground vehicles, monitor nuclear power plants, lower noise levels in commercial jetliners, compute takeoff speeds for jetliners, locate and identify air and ground traffic and to let kids count bunnies, learn how to spell and do math problems. He has written several on-line texts teaching Visual Basic, Visual C# and Java to thousands of people. He taught a beginning Visual Basic course for over 15 years at a major university. Currently, Lou works as an engineer at a major Seattle aerospace firm. He is the proud father of five children and proud husband of his special wife. Lou and his family live in Seattle, Washington.

Acknowledgements

I want to thank my three wonderful daughters - Stephanie, Jessica and Chloe, who helped with various aspects of the book publishing process including software testing, book editing, creative design and many other more tedious tasks like finding errors and typos. I could not have accomplished this without all your hard work, love and support. I want to also thank my best friend Jesus, who has always been there by my side giving me wisdom and guidance. Without you, this book would have never been printed and published.

I also want to thank my multi-talented co-author, Lou Tylee, for doing all the real hard work necessary to develop, test, debug, and keep current all the beginner-friendly applications, games and base tutorial text found in this book. Lou has tirelessly poured his heart and soul into so many previous versions of this tutorial and there are so many beginners who have benefited from his work over the years. Lou is by far one of the best application developers and tutorial writers I have ever worked with. Thank you Lou for collaborating with me on this book project.

Course Description:

Visual C# for Kids is an interactive, self-paced tutorial providing a complete introduction to the Visual C# programming language and environment. The tutorial consists of 10 lessons explaining (in simple, easy-to-follow terms) how to build a Visual C# application. Numerous examples are used to demonstrate every step in the building process. The tutorial also includes detailed computer projects for kids to build and try. Visual C# for Kids is presented using a combination of course notes (written in Microsoft Word format) and many Visual C# examples and projects.

Course Prerequisites:

To use Visual C# for Kids , you should be comfortable working within the Windows environment, knowing how to find files, move windows, resize windows, etc. No programming experience is needed. The course material should be understandable to kids aged 10 and up. You will also need the ability to view and print documents saved in Adobe Acrobat format.

Software Requirements

To use Visual C#, you need to have the Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition product installed on your computer. It is available for free download from Microsoft. Follow this link for complete instructions for downloading and installing Visual Studio 2015 Comminity Edition on your computer:

https://www.visualstudio.com/products/free-developer-offers-vs

A Brief Word on the Course:

Though this course is entitled Visual C# for Kids, it is not necessarily written in a kids vocabulary. Computer programming has a detailed vocabulary of its own and, since adults developed it, the terminology tends to be very adult-like. In developing this course, we discussed how to address this problem and decided we would treat our kid readers like adults, since they are learning what is essentially an adult topic. We did not want to dumb-down the course. You see this in some books. We, quite frankly, are offended by books that refer to readers as dummies and idiots simply because they are new to a particular topic. We didnt want to do that here. Throughout the course, we treat the kid reader as a mature person learning a new skill. The vocabulary is not that difficult, but there may be times the kid reader needs a little help. Hopefully, the nearest adult can provide that help.