C# Intermediate Programming : The First Steps (Udemy.com)

Mr. Chiarelli truly does a great job in breaking down whole complex topics into simple bits that are easy to understand. The scope of this course is undoubtedly well round, teaching you a wide variety of actual skills in programming with C#. The most of the content in this course is focused on exploring instructor's own example applications, with the least on writing plain code in the real time. I would be thankful if the course could focus more on the later, because I find writing code with the instructor more beneficial for hands-on learning. Nonetheless, I'm grateful for all of Mr. Chiarelli's work, definitely looking forward on taking another course of his on web development with C#.

I highly recommend this course for either the absolute beginner or anyone who has a modicum of development experience. Charlie breaks down each concept to its most basic parts and presents explanations and demonstrations in crystal clear detail. I am a developer with many years of experience who transitioned from mainframe programming to OOP via VB.Net many years ago. I was intrigued by this course because it covers recursion and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). I was scared off by recursion when first learning OOP (VB.Net) because the expert who was hired on at my place of work to train us made it look big and scary. Charlie's presents the concept in an absolutely easy to understand manner that, although I need some practice to fully comprehend the mechanics, I no longer view recursion from a distance as something to avoid. The simple games and coding keys to control an object on the screen were interesting concepts that introduce more intermediate concepts in development. I especially enjoyed the WPF portion of the course as I've endured the "pain" of the old WinForms in development. To reiterate, Charlie's explanations are well thought out, are presented at a deliberate pace, and are well organized. I think Udemy should require all instructors (current and future) to watch at least one of Charlie's courses in order to understand how to properly present information. I've quit two courses part-way through because the instructors are too eclectic in their presentation, don't prepare with a plan, and ramble off topic. In other words, they just "wing it" without consideration for the student.

Im really not sure why this, and all of Charlie’s courses really, don’t have more students enrolled. You can really see the difference in the presentation in courses tonight by software engineers versus actual teachers. There is a very noticeable content quality difference between the two. Disregard the negative reviews because they are clearly prior to course completion. This is by far one of the best presentations on C# especially for beginners

Array subscript zero is always used in professional programming. I think he is doing a disservice to his students by not getting them use to that. The language, such as the foreach command is geared to use subscript zero. The math is a little different, but not much. Students need to get use to that. In this last lesson he referred to subscripts as pointers. C# does support pointers and they're not subscripts. Pointers are addresses, and in C# are considered unsafe. I think the students will become confused when they run into pointers in real C# code or documentation and they are different than what is being taught.

I previously did the old 2014-2015 learn unity through c# course. Which is excellent but left me i felt without core understanding of c# terms and concepts though I can code in it I cannot communicate in it. And it did not leave me knowing how to apply code outside of unity fore instance how i could use monodevelop to answer codewars challenges. So I chose this course because I was engaged enough, had learnt that i love coding that even if it was less creative and exciting (its hard to compete with making games) it would be far more focused on the core learning i want which is c# and wouldn't be slowed down by having to learn or fiddle with an environment like unity. (which i can do now and love form the other course). The description of the course is good and it is currently achieving these things. It is aimed at Teens but I see no reason for that as I am 31 and think it is perfectly accessible. I think it may be particularly good for teens in that they may want (or someone else may want them to) learn coding and it is very much done in an a way that fits my positive experiences of schooling. So it probably would fit nicely for being run as an afterschool thing or homeschool thing. I feel with this and my previous course it is worth cross referencing the terms with other websites just to reinforce it and unlike my previous course you could sit back and coast so it is worth making sure you go through and fiddle with all the application you are given and do the tasks set. I'm particularly impressed that we receive finished or part built programs so that you can get straight to the coding aspects. Once my previous course sucked me in I feel i would of benefited from this so the focus was the c# rather than the game making. So i feel the balance its good you will learn how to make applications and visual studio but wont feel slowed down by it. I like the person running the course, I like their material, I like their voice which i think is important when you are watching videos and often rewatching bits. The presentation is more likeable teacher than entertainer. And it is a course that you need to motivate yourself which is why I give it a 4 not a 5 as my last course which was produced by a company not an individual was a bit higher spec in the delivery and using discussion boards etc. But do consider I'm rarely a straight to five stars person because I want to know when i look at reviews if they are outstanding, or good or average not just if they were average-outstanding or awful.

I feel like this course is a little too easy, because it's always a very small applications we are building, so you can't really feel like a true developer. So far my favourite approach of an udemy instructor is this of team Gamedev.tv. They also like Charlie have very application driven approach and most of all, they show how to make diffrent components of the entire project working together, making the entire project really playable and often interesting. So in my opinon like another section, focused entirely on making complex app would make this course stand out and more importantly, truly NEAT.

So many of the classes on a programming language focus on command line instructions; fine but programmers want to build something they can deliver. This course, by jumping right into apps with a Graphical User Interface, allows the learner to feel like they are learning concepts that produce a tangible result. However, it's not really an "Intermediate" level programming class; it's more of a "Beginner to Intermediate" class as the instructor introduces a lot of programming and OOP basics. If you're an experienced programmer wanting to jump into C# and learn a GUI approach, you'll find yourself having to skip over a bit of the initial content content (or at least play it at 2x). Having said that, once you're past the "Basics" area, you will get into more intermediate subjects such a animations and graphic drawing, event handling, SQL database integration, file I/O, and XAML. As a programmer with 40 years experience, I found enough content to see me through the entire course, however new programmers will also benefit from the teacher's easy teaching style honed by his 35 years of experience teaching high schools students.

The best introduction to Windows Forms Applications I have seen anywhere. This course assumes absolutely nothing about what you already know, and skips no steps in getting to know Windows Forms. It walks you carefully through every possible feature you can imagine, and has in its source code dozens and dozens of existing projects you can learn from, or expand on to make your own project. It's worth sifting through a dozen mediocre Udemy courses to find the gems like this. It's pretty close to a one stop shop for taking you from knowing nothing about WinForms, to building your own whole application. I'd say that this course manages to do for WFA what Ben Tristem's Game Dev course does for Unity. Don't think it's only for high school kids either just because the instructor is a high school teacher and it seems kind of aimed at them. I'm a 26 year old CS student changing careers and this course as been great for me. It is also teaching C#/.NET basics as you go, but don't think that because of that it will be too slow for someone who already knows C#, but is new to WinForms. The lectures are generally split between C#/programming concepts, and WinForms stuff, so you can just skip the intro to programming parts of any given lecture if you are already a C# dev looking to learn Windows Forms.

Maybe 20 years ago I taught myself C, later C++. It is so much better to be able to learn through the Udemy environment. Charlie has put together a thorough range of topics and provides dozens and dozens of sample programs and applications. His passion for programming really shows, confirmed through the emails with links to important ideas he occassionally sends to his students. His explanations are clear and concise. Every lesson adds insight and clarity to the language, including tips for making the code organized and readable. I highly recommend this class for anyone interested in learning C#. I have already applied several ideas on a project I am currently developing.

First word that comes to mind to review this course: WOW! I achieved so many things I needed to do for college and work (as far as programming jobs and homework) I'm really amazed I could learn to program the stuff I did and that fast. The reason is the instructor of this course is so clear and transmits his knowledge so well, highlights key points so well, that I could realize how to carry over my programming projects right away. It definitely shows that he is a teacher by profession and calling, I'm saying this because at least with me he did the job a teacher should do, make the student learn. I bought other courses here but I really did not learn much, I was put to sleep mostly because they were repeating things from a book. Now I realize it was not my fault really, because this course kept me engaged and motivated to move on. This is definitely a course like no other in Udemy. I love the fact that most lessons are long, 20 minutes, this gives the feeling of being at a real class face to face. The instructor is not lecturing but teaching. The additional material, exercises, is very thorough. The lesson plan is well thought. The topics range from very basic to a good intermediate level and they include some stuff that you don't even find in books, I know because I tried read quite a few of them. He answers questions right away and very thoroughly, I feel a bit ashamed about how much I paid for it, it's already more value than what I expected. I bought a few other programming courses here but they don't get even close to the quality of instruction of this course for all the reasons I mentioned above. I wanted to write this for two reasons: to thank the instructor Charlie, and to tell you reader don't miss this course, go ahead and get it.

Great course! One of the best courses on udemy for c# programming.

Great and easy to understand lessons. My 8 year old twins can understand some of the lectures.