You already know from the lesson methods and functions and parameters that you can create methods that accept a number of parameters of different types. But what if you would want to send a method itself as a parameter to another method?… Read more
Delegates
January 9th, 2020Interfaces
January 4th, 2020Interfaces, just like C/C++ pointers, are one of those topics that beginners, and even intermediate programmers are afraid of, because they do not understand them. In fact, the truth is, they are simple to understand, and the real difficulty comes when asking the question “why should I use them/where should I use them?”.… Read more
Abstract classes and methods
January 4th, 2020As I was explaining in the previous lesson, one way of achieving abstraction is trough the means of abstract classes and methods. The abstract keyword can be used for both classes and methods. An abstract class is a class that provides a partial implementation.… Read more
Abstraction
January 3rd, 2020Another fundamental principle of Object Oriented Programming is abstraction. Abstraction mainly refers to the ability of using something without knowing or being interested about how that something does what we request of it. We do this every day: we do not care how a computer does all it does (well, actually, some of us do), we only care that it is able to do what we need from it.… Read more
Polymorphism
January 3rd, 2020The third fundamental principle of Object Oriented Programming is called polymorphism. At a fundamental level, polymorphy refers to the ability of having many forms, or to transform into many forms. It comes from the Greek terms poly, which means “multiple”, and morph, which means “shape” or “form”.… Read more
Encapsulation
December 19th, 2019The second fundamental principle of Object Oriented Programming is called encapsulation. Its main definition refers to the action of hiding anything that is not essential from the outside world. It is not very difficult to understand the fact that we do not need to expose everything when we build something.… Read more
Virtual Methods
December 8th, 2019Virtual methods are methods that can be overridden in inheriting (derived) classes. By default, in .NET, methods are not virtual. In order to declare a method as virtual, we need to declare it using the keyword virtual, like so:
Inheritance
November 17th, 2019In the first lesson of the Objects chapter, I was discussing in a broad way about Object Oriented Programming, acronymed OOP, and I was enumerating it’s fundamental principles: encapsulation, inheritance, abstraction and polymorphism. In this lesson, I will explain inheritance at large, and how class hierarchies improve code readability and reusability.… Read more
XAML: Writing the GUI of our application
December 23rd, 2018In the previous lessons, we dealt with the steps required to plan, design and research all the elements of our first complex application, and in this lesson we are going to start the first practical step of it: designing the user interface.… Read more
Research stage of building an application
September 6th, 2018The second step in the process of developing an application is the research phase. I was explaining in the previous lessons that there are a few steps for building applications the right way, and that jumping straight on the keyboard is not a good idea.… Read more
