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Archive for December, 2016

Installing Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition

Wednesday, December 21st, 2016

Important note! This article is now obsolete, a new version of Visual Studio is now available (Visual Studio Community Edition 2017). Read about the installation process of the new version here!

In the last post, I have explained that in order to be able to develop programs, you will need a compiler, and if you’re not directly interested in programming blindly (and trust me, you aren’t!),… Read more

Introduction to programming

Monday, December 19th, 2016

Computer programs, also known as “software”, are a series of instructions that the computer can execute. When you are creating a program, you must specify the instructions that the computer must execute in order to achieve the desired operations. The process of defining the instructions that the computer executes is called programmingRead more

Contents

Monday, December 19th, 2016

Beginner level software engineering


Chapter INTRODUCTION

Introduction to programming
Installing Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition
Installing Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition
Creating first project
Short introduction to Visual Studio interface
Structure of a C# Console program
C# differentiates between uppercase and lowercase
Comments in C#
Formatting codes
Semicolon character
Variables
Variable types
Declaring and initializing variables
C# keywords
Choosing significant variable names
Interacting with the Console
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The red pill

Monday, December 19th, 2016

Last year, my friends and I were discussing the possibility of starting a free online resource for teaching programming to the (to my happiness) ever increasing number of people willing to make the leap from “consumer” to “creator”, and whether such a project is realistic or not.… Read more

There is no spoon!

Saturday, December 17th, 2016

Have you ever had a dream, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?

Let me tell you why you’re here.… Read more


Follow the white rabbit