Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Introduction to Visual Studio and Visual Programming Chapter 3: Introduction to C# App Programming Chapter 4: Introduction to Classes, Objects, Methods and strings Chapter 5: Control Statements: Part 1 Chapter 6: Control Statements: Part 2 Chapter 7: Methods: A Deeper Look Chapter 8: Arrays; Introduction to Exception Handling Chapter 9: Introduction to LINQ and the List Collection Chapter 10: Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look Chapter 11: Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance Chapter 12: OOP: Polymorphism and Interfaces Chapter 13: Exception Handling: A Deeper Look Chapter 14: Graphical User Interfaces with Windows Forms: Part 1 Chapter 15: Graphical User Interfaces with Windows Forms: Part 2 Chapter 16: Strings and Characters: A Deeper Look Chapter 17: Files and Streams Chapter 18: Generics Chapter 19: Generic Collections; Functional Programming with LINQ/PLINQ Chapter 20: Databases and LINQ Chapter 21: Asynchronous Programming with async and await Appendix A: Operator Precedence Chart Appendix B: Simple Types Appendix C: ASCII Character Set Index

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