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Game Development How to Make a Video Game Introduction to Video Games What is a Game?

Posted by Sako Kassabian
Sako Kassabian
13,796 Points

A question for Nick regarding C# development training.

Hi Nick,

The company I work for primarily uses c# for their backend. I wish treehouse had c# courses because I have been waiting for a while. Most resources I've looked at have been terrible at teaching C#, can you recommend any? We are using Asp.net MVC.

5 Answers

Nick Pettit
STAFF
Nick Pettit
Treehouse Teacher
Nick Pettit
Nick Pettit
Treehouse Teacher

We're working on hiring a .NET teacher right now because we plan to release .NET and C# courses. If you know anyone, they can apply here! https://teamtreehouse.com/jobs/at-treehouse-1966fb81-9834-4530-88be-226093023736

Honestly, there's not any resources that I would recommend. :-/ I'm personally excited to take our own upcoming C# courses and pick up some new tips!

james white
james white
78,399 Points

Not any resources you would recommend?

Please don't leave the Treehouse community without any C# resources to explore..

First you need to grab an IDE in you really want to play around with C#.

..

Who invented C#?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_%28programming_language%29

Yes, that would be Microsoft.

(And I'm well aware that the term "Microsoft" mysteriously doesn't come up as

a topic of conversation in a lot of TeamTreehouse threads..)

So [IMHO] you're first choice for a C# IDE should probably be one of the free

(express or community) editions of Visual Studio:

https://www.visualstudio.com/products/free-developer-offers-vs.aspx

Then a great place for C# resources in the MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network)

online documentation would be this page:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/hh341490.aspx

If you are not a fan of Microsoft's IDE, then try SharpDevelop:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sharpdevelop/

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/

Sako mentioned ASP.Net, but probably most of the Treehouse students have no idea what he is talking about.

Here's some links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASP.NET

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4w3ex9c2.aspx

Lastly I noticed the .Net TeamTreehouse position (that Nick provided a link for above)

didn't really mention having an XNA (or even DirectX) skillset.

I really hope whoever they hire has experience using C# to develop

games using hardware accelerated graphics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_XNA

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb200104.aspx

Although XNA development has "slowed" in recent years,

DirectX (including Direct3D) continues to be "baked in" to

all versions of Windows, including Windows 10:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2875094/directx-12-just-sneaked-into-windows-10-but-you-cant-use-it-yet.html

...and Microsoft certainly isn't going to get rid of DirectX because it also crosses over

to the XBox platform:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/developers

Sako Kassabian
Sako Kassabian
13,796 Points

Thanks Nick! Look forward to the new courses.

Michael Q
Michael Q
4,506 Points
Michael Q
Michael Q
4,506 Points

have you checked out http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/ there was another site that looked promising but i cant find it currently..

i i would love to see a track for c#, i am just starting the making a video game with c#

Sako Kassabian
Sako Kassabian
13,796 Points
Sako Kassabian
Sako Kassabian
13,796 Points

@james - thanks for those. I actually have a full version of Visual Studio 2015 that I use because of work.

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points
Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

I might say readin books and search for updates online : p

Scott Reuber
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Scott Reuber
Courses Plus Student 12,756 Points
Scott Reuber
Scott Reuber
Courses Plus Student 12,756 Points

Will there be any C# geared towards the game dev track with the Unity courses, or will that all just be self-contained in those courses?