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- Microsoft Learn – Interactive free courses, similar to Codecademy, etc.
- Take Your First Steps with C# – Covers outputting to the screen, literals and variables, basic string formatting, basic mathematical operations, calling methods from a .NET Class Library, using decision logic (
if-elseif-else), storing and iterating through data in arrays, using the foreach statement, creating readable code (conventions, whitespace, comments). - Add Logical to Your Applications with C# – Covers evaluating boolean expressions, controlling variable scope and logic using code blocks,
switch-case construct (branching), for statement (iterating), while and do-while statements (looping). - Work with Data in C# – Covers data types, converting data (including casting), helper methods for arrays, formatting alphanumeric data for presentation, using string data type methods to alter content of strings.
- Build .NET Applications with C# – Covers writing your first C# code (“Hello World!”), introduction to .NET, creating a new .NET project, working with project dependencies, interactively debugging .NET apps with Visual Studio Code’s debugger, working with files/directories in a .NET app, and creating a Web API with ASP.NET Core.
- Learn C# in Y Minutes – Short reference to C#, good for individuals looking to refresh or those coming from a similar language.
General Resources
Development
- Cake – Cross-platform build tool (like make).
- Bogus – Fake data generator.
- Bridge.NET – C# to JavaScript transpiler.
- NuGet – Package Manager.
- Moq – For mocking.
- NUnit – Unit testing.
- AutoMapper – Object-to-Object Mapper.
Database
Other
- Stateless – Stars: 3.6k – Updated: 12/2020 – Checked: 12/2020.
- Library for creating state machines.
- C# Functional Language Extensions – Stars: 3.3k – Updated: 12/2020 – Checked: 12/2020.
- IdentityModel – Stars: 656 – Updated: 12/2020 – Checked: 12/2020.
- “.NET standard helper library for claims-based identity, OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect.”