Learn C# by Building Applications

About this course

This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Master the fundamentals of C# through a hands-on, application-driven approach that accelerates your learning and solidifies your understanding. By building real-world tools like calculators, word games, web scrapers, and even a Sudoku solver, you'll gain both practical experience and foundational programming skills. The course begins with setting up your development environment using Visual Studio and introduces core programming concepts such as variables, conditionals, classes, methods, and exception handling by building a fully functional calculator. You’ll then progress to more complex logic and data structures while creating a word unscrambler, where loops, arrays, file handling, and key design principles are emphasized. Next, you’ll explore object-oriented programming by developing a web scraper, diving deep into encapsulation, builder patterns, and unit testing. Finally, you'll tackle advanced programming paradigms through a comprehensive Sudoku solver, using interfaces, polymorphism, LINQ, and strategy design patterns. This course is ideal for aspiring developers, hobbyists, or students looking to learn C# from scratch through project-based learning. No prior experience in C# is required, but familiarity with basic computing concepts is recommended. The course is designed at a Beginner level. By the end of the course, you will be able to confidently build and test multiple C# applications, apply core object-oriented principles, write clean reusable code, and understand new language features introduced in C# 7.

Course objectives

• help students gain practical programming experience
• introduce key C# concepts through project-based learning
• encourage understanding of advanced programming paradigms