Entry requirements

• A minimum of 7.5 credits of programming in C#.
• English B/English 6 from Swedish upper secondary school, or equivalent.

Progression level in relation to degree requirements

Single subject course. This course is not part of any main subject.

Course contents

The course covers the following main topics:

• Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
• Inheritance and polymorphism,
• Dynamic binding, abstract classes, and interfaces
• Structured exception handling
• Generics, data structures and collections
• File handling and object serialization
• Delegates, events and event handlers
• .NET Core
• Tuple, Discards and other new C# features.

Learning outcomes

**Knowledge and understanding
**
Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of:

• the main principles of object-orientation and the areas of their implementation,
• the more advanced data structures of the C# language and the .NET Framework.
• developing applications using .NET Core.

**Skills and abilities
**
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

• write well-structured, object-oriented and well-documented programming code,
• implement more advanced data structures and generic types,
• create more advanced user interfaces in WPF.

Judgement and approach

Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

• evaluate and compare design and solutions to applications from an object-oriented perspective.
• compare solutions between .NET Framework and .NET Core.

Learning activities

The course consists of lectures, programming exercises, quizzes and assignments.

Distance learning: The education is offered exclusively online; attendance or other physical presence is neither planned nor required. Students are expected to have access to a computer with Windows and Internet connection.

Assessment

Requirements for Pass (A-E):

Passed grade in Assignment Part 1 (4 credits), Part 2 (2 credits), and passed quizzes (1.5 credits).

The final course grade will be based on a weighted result of all individual assignments.

Course literature

• Price, Mark J. C# 10 and .NET 6 - Modern Cross-Platform Development, Sixths Edition, 9 November 2021

Alternative literature:

• Troelsen A, Japikse, P. Pro C# 10 with .NET 6:Foundational Principles and Practices in Programming, 2022.

Course evaluation

Higher education institutions shall enable students who are participating in or have completed a course to express their experiences and views on the course through a course evaluation to be organized by the higher education institution. The higher education institution shall collate the course evaluations and provide information about their results and any actions prompted by the course evaluations. The results shall be made available to the students.” (HF 1:14).

Interim rules

In a case when a course is no longer given, or the contents have been changed essentially, the student has the right to be examined twice during a one-year period, according to the course plan, which was valid at the time of registration.

Additional information

This course is given in English. All educational materials will be in English.

This course cannot be included in a degree together with DA205X Programmering med C#, II.