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[matty241]

From studying a few different C# books I'm starting to get familiar with some basic programming concepts and the C# syntax. I feel at this stage I would make the most amount of progress if there were a sort of beginner project I could attempt.

Anyone have any ideas of a good project that would be suitable for someone who has only been learning for 5-6 weeks

Thanks

Matty ( I tried to look on google but it seems to only come up with beginners' tutorials)

[gaylo565]

Tic-Tac-Toe is a pretty standard first semester project for c#. A simple calculator is a good one to familiarize yourself with some math functions. You can do a simple password and user login for learning to make web applications. None of these require really tough programming although the Tic-Tac-Toe is probably the easiest. Some people think you should start with all console app's...don't really have any good ones of those for ya.

[Xav]

I've suggested a few to TcM - how about a program that calculates prime numbers between a given range? Or, what about a basic RSS reader? I could help you on either if you need it.

[Xav]

Hmm... I thought networking was considered an advanced topic, or am I wrong?

How about a password generator, where you type in keywords, and it forms passwords out of them?

[Xav]

I agree - storing data it one of the most useful tasks a program can have.

However, I usually prefer to store the data in XML Files, as they are a cross between a database and text file. Take a look at the System.Xml namespace for details.

[gaylo565]

Sql queries are indeed a very good programming skill. They can be very complicated and some programmers make a living just writing custom data adapters. However the premise is very simple and standard queries can be understood by most levels of programmers. Like Jordan said its a must for career oriented programmers.

Edited by gaylo565, 08 May 2008 - 07:30 PM.

[Xav]

Yes, but with .NET you have been provided with many useful classes and objects that can achieve almost exactly the same thing as with SQL. I've never actually experienced a situation in which I couldn't do something in XML that a SQL database couldn't.

[Xav]

Easy peasy in C#:

[I]assuming 'doc' is the System.Xml. XmlDocument containing the XML data.[/I]
XmlNode row = doc.ChildNodes[596102 - 1];

See? XML docs can be referenced as arrays, objects, the lot. The node 'row' now contains the properties Attributes, ChildNodes and InnerText. Easy, eh?