C#, .NET, and software design

Lecture Material

• C# and Software Design notes

Reference Material

OSU C# Courses

• http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~crawfis/cse459_CSharp/index.html
• Current class number is 4253 persistent page ; usually taught by a graduate student whose pages are gone sometime after they graduate - search online for recent materials

Cheat sheets

• http://www.dreamincode.net/downloads/ref_sheets/csharp_basics_reference_sheet.pdf
• http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/QRC/Core%20CSharp%20and%20.NET%20Quick%20Reference.pdf
• http://geekswithblogs.net/BlackRabbitCoder/archive/2010/04/19/of-c-iterators-and-performance.aspx - Iterators

Java to C# references

• msdn
• 25hoursaday
• ondotnet

C++ to C# references

• msdn
• stackoverflow tips

.NET

• .NET 2.0 poster
• .NET 4.5 new items

Design

Object Oriented Programming

• Program to interfaces, not implementations!
• Seriously, program to interfaces, not implementations!

Component Based Software Engineering

• A Data-Driven Game Object System (one of the earliest talks selling the use of this design for game engines)
• Game Object Structure: Inheritance vs. Aggregation (more succinct summary of issues in an OOP implementation that favors inheritance)
• Understanding Component-Entity-Systems (has a couple of good diagrams)
• What is an entity system framework for game development? (good code examples)
• Case Study: Bomberman Mechanics in an Entity-Component-System (good code examples, somewhat like a tutorial)