Adventures In C# Programming

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Huw Collingbourne

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1 - Starting The Adventure

1 - Welcome to the course.mp4

01:20

2 - AdventuresinCSharpREADME.pdf

2 - Read This First.html

3 - VisualStudio2019.pdf

3 - Visual Studio 2019.html

4 - Code.zip

4 - Code Archive to download.html

5 - Who is this course for.mp4

02:10

6 - What I assume you know before starting the course.mp4

01:00

7 - How to study the course.mp4

02:54

8 - A short history of adventure games.mp4

03:15

9 - Rooms the fundamental objects of a game.mp4

01:20

10 - Creating a Room.mp4

06:33

11 - Creating Multiple Rooms.mp4

03:56

12 - Creating a Map.mp4

03:50

13 - Moving around the game.mp4

05:46

14 - Group related classes.mp4

04:04

15 - Add accessor methods.mp4

04:27

16 - Create an Actor class.mp4

02:55

17 - Initializing the Player and Rooms.mp4

02:51

18 - Moving the player.mp4

03:28

19 - A Better Map.mp4

02:02

20 - A Custom RoomList Class.mp4

01:51

21 - Creating Unique Room Identifiers.mp4

01:53

22 - Moving to a Named Room.mp4

03:46

23 - Initializing the adventure.mp4

02:37

24 - Simplifying Map Construction.mp4

02:23

25 - Moving Actor objects.mp4

05:23

2 - Building the Game World

1 - Quiz.html

26 - ThingHolder Class.mp4

03:40

27 - ThingList class.mp4

03:03

28 - Multiple constructors.mp4

04:23

29 - Taking and Dropping Objects.mp4

06:36

30 - Describing Objects 1.mp4

02:57

31 - Describing Objects 2.mp4

03:26

32 - Describing Objects 3.mp4

05:09

33 - Describing Objects 4.mp4

04:56

34 - Adding a File menu.mp4

02:42

35 - Look At Object.mp4

02:42

36 - Saving and Loading Games.mp4

02:52

37 - Making objects serializable.mp4

04:43

38 - Subclassing Dictionaries.mp4

03:50

39 - Getting Ready For the Next Step.mp4

03:37

40 - Human Language Commands.mp4

01:54

41 - Building a bigger Game.mp4

05:33

42 - An English Language Parser.mp4

04:09

43 - Categorising commands.mp4

05:36

44 - Putting Objects into other Objects.mp4

03:57

45 - Whatnext.pdf

45 - What Next.html

46 - And Finally.mp4

01:37

Description

Learn C# by programming a text-adventure game

What You'll Learn?

Program a text adventure game
Learn Object Oriented programming in C#
Build a complex project from multiple code files
Understand classes, objects and serialization

Who is this for?

Beginners who have (or are) already studying an elementary C# course

Intermediate programmers ready to dive in to learn C# in depth

Anyone interested in how to create a classic-style text adventure

What You Need to Know?

Visual Studio (either the free Community edition or a commercial edition).

Some basic programming knowledge

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Description
Adventures in C# ProgrammingÂ is a programming course like no other! It teaches the features of the C# language by guiding you step-by-step through the development of an exploring-style game.
You will learn toâ€¦
Write a retro-style adventure game like â€˜Zorkâ€™ or â€˜Colossal Caveâ€™
Master object orientation by creating hierarchies of treasure objects
Create rooms and maps using .NET collections, arrays and Dictionaries
Create objects with overloaded and overridden methods
Serialize networks of data to save and restore games
Write modular code using classes, partial classes and subclasses
Program user interaction with a â€˜natural languageâ€™ interface
Plus: encapsulation, inheritance, constructors, enums, properties, hidden methods and much moreâ€¦
If you are a beginner programmer and already studying another C# course, this will give you hands-on experience of writing a big and complex project.
If you are an experienced programmer, this will give you a quick way into the twisty little corners of the C# language.
If you are a retro-games fanatic, learn how to write games just like the Infocom classics of the 1980s!
In this course you will learn to write C# your own retro text-adventure game using either theÂ free Visual Studio Community EditionÂ or a commercial edition of Microsoft Visual Studio. All theÂ source codeÂ of sample projects is provided ready for you to download, run and modify.
The course instructor,Â Huw Collingbourne, is the author of the cult adventure game, The Golden Wombat Of Destiny. A long-established programming teacher online, he is also a well-known programming columnist in the UK and is the author of The Book Of Ruby.
Adventures in C# Programming is the ultimate fun way to learn the C# language. So, come on in and letâ€™s begin the adventure!
Who this course is for:
Beginners who have (or are) already studying an elementary C# course
Intermediate programmers ready to dive in to learn C# in depth
Anyone interested in how to create a classic-style text adventure

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Huw Collingbourne is the technology director at SapphireSteel Software, developers of programming tools for Microsoft Visual Studio. He is author of The Little Book Of C, The Little Book Of Pointers and The Little Book Of Recursion from Bitwise Books and of The Book Of Ruby from No Starch Press. He runs Bitwise Courses and teaches courses on a range of programming topics. Huw has been a programmer for more than 30 years. He is a well-known technology writer in the UK. For over ten years he wrote the Delphi and Java programming column for PC Plus Magazine. He has also written numerous opinion and programming columns (including tutorials on C#, C++, Smalltalk and Ruby) for a number of computer magazines, such as Computer Shopper, PC Pro, and PC Plus. In the 1980s he was a pop music journalist and interviewed most of the New Romantic stars, such as Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Adam Ant, Boy George, and Depeche Mode. He is now writing a series of 1980s murder mysteries. At various times Huw has been a magazine publisher, editor, and TV broadcaster. He has an MA in English from the University of Cambridge and holds a 2nd dan black belt in aikido, a martial art which he teaches in North Devon, UK. The aikido comes in useful when trying (usually unsuccessfully) to keep his Pyrenean Mountain Dogs under some semblance of control.

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