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How am i supposed to learn C# ? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have some background in Python and Bash (this is entirely self-taught and i think the easiest language from all). I know that C# is much different, propably this is why it is hard. I've been learning it for more than 4 months now, and the most impressive thing i can do with some luck is to write a console application that reads 2 values from the terminal, adds them together and prints out the result. Yes, seriously. The main problem is that there are not much usable resources to learn C#. For bash, there is Linux, a shit ton of distros, even BSD, MacOS and Solaris uses it. For python, there are games and qtile window manager. For C, there is dwm. I don't know anything like these for C#, except Codingame, but that just goes straight to the deep waters and i have no idea what to do. Is my whole approach wrong? How am i supposed to learn C#? I'm seriously not the sharpest tool in the shed, but i have a pretty good understanding of hardware, networking, security, privacy. Programming is beyond me however, except for small basic scripts

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Depends how you learn. Being mindful of what your goal is helps. C# can be used for console apps, it can also be used to make ASP.Net websites, further afield you can program the Unity games engine with C#. Each of these will have "absolute beginner most basic first steps" type tutorials out there. They'll all have some similarity as you'll need to just learn the C# syntax one way out another, but it miles easier doing this if you're vaguely interested in the types of apps you're heading towards.

If all else fails, message me, I was there once, about 20 years ago..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

C# is very powerful and object oriented programming language that help us to make web application, desktop application, games, client server application, mobile application. But many other programming language does not provide all these features in one programming language. If one support mobile developement but may it will not support web development or if one support web development may it can support desktop developement. But C# is versitle language that also run on different platform very easily and friendly. C# also support small web application and software to till large web application and enterprise software. So https://c-sharptutorial.com/ is an complete site for learning C# tutorials with real life examples.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Java and C# are very similar, worst case scenario learn Java, then C# will be easy.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just jumped in, start making some cool projects

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (5 children)

With basically no knowledge? I could create a new project using chatgpt but i will not learn c# with that

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Jumping from loose-typed language to strict-typed language will be hard.

It's also a matter of your general programming experience. Once you write, like, ten thousand lines of meaningful code in Python, learning C# should take you a month or two at most, you'll know most programming concepts and algorithms intrinsically, and the rest is just learning syntax.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

This is how I feel about music

[+] [email protected] -7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

learn java, way more material for that, but conceptionally very similar to c#. I suggest a book like "Head first Java".

after that c# will be much easier to grasp.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Is java easier to understand than c#, for someone who only has some experience with scripting languages?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

no, i don't think there is a big difference in 'difficulty' between both languages.

there is just more material for java, and as i said the languages are very similar, so learing to program in java wont be a waste of time if you plan to only use c# after that, because the concepts you learned a long the way will easily carry over.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I personally find Java easier in the sense you have to get things done with pretty simple tools, while C# you have 10 different options for a problem.

Also makes it easier when looking at other people's code since everyone uses the same basic tools.

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