Adventures In C# Programming (Udemy.com)
Learn C# by programming a text-adventure game
Created by: Huw Collingbourne
Produced in 2021
What you will 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
Quality Score
Overall Score : 86 / 100
Course Description
You will learn to
- Write a retro-style adventure game like Zork' or Colossal Cave'
- 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 natural language' interface
- Plus: encapsulation, inheritance, constructors, enums, properties, hidden methods and much more
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 the free Visual Studio Community Edition or a commercial edition of Microsoft Visual Studio. All the source code of sample projects is provided ready for you to download, run and modify.
The course instructor, 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 let'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
Instructor Details
- 4.3 Rating
26 Reviews
Huw Collingbourne
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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