Hi readers, F# advent calendar For those who are not aware, the F# advent calendar has been initiated by Sergey Tihon a couple of years ago. I started participating in it last year and I must say that the F# community is amazing! Everyone always produces great content to share. Honestly, I could not have […]
Hi readers, C# advent calendar This year, I decided to participate in the C# advent calendar. You can find other posts for the C# advent calendar here. I had the chance to partake before in the F# advent calendar and was not aware that there was one for C# users. I feel this blog entry […]
I have been a developer for the past 7 years. I’ve gone through a lot of code reviews during that time. I have devoted my time to learn good software engineering practices through C#. Last year, my passion for performance engineering took off. One thing that has always been important for me was to be […]
Hi everyone, C# 8.0 has brought up a lot of great features and among them there is the ‘Nullable Reference Type’ feature. Probably the most impactful feature of C# 8.0 is Nullable Reference Types (NRTs). It lets you make the flow of nulls explicit in your code, and warns you when you don’t act according […]
Hey everyone! I don’t know who has already seen this but I want to make sure it’s visible everywhere! Zaid has been putting so much energy building awesome tools and documentation around Fable! Now, he has released publicly a book on developing web applications through F# and Elmish! Here’s a snippet of the readme: The […]
For the uninitiated, F# is a general-purpose programming language found in .NET. Contrary to C# who promotes objects as its first-class citizen (can receive and output objects in methods), F# promotes functions at its first citizens. This means that the preferred way of doing this will be through functional programming, but it doesn’t meet that […]
Hi, So we’re one week into the F# mentorship program and I’ve got some progress to share. I’ve had the chance to met with my mentee and that went really great! He has signed up to get an introduction to the language and that’s exactly what we’ve planned to do. We’ve went over some fundamentals […]
Performance engineering has been something I’ve been pushing at my job for the past few months. We’ve had performance issues that needed to be solved and it felt like even if we fixed them, we could still get hit by a regression. So that’s when I started to research online to find a solution to […]
Hi, Last year, I saw a few functional programming languages had repositories on which you could find companies that use those languages. Because that looked like a fun initiative and I couldn’t find an equivalent for F#, I created one and shared it on a few social networks like Reddit. I’m writing about it now […]
Hi, Today, I’m going to talk about an open source gem in .NET for developing WPF applications for people who are interested in reactive and functional programming. To understand the work behind ReactiveUI, one mst understand Rx, or rather Reactive Extensions for .NET. The goal of the syntax of ReactiveUI for read-write properties is to notify […]
Hi, I’ve learned about the magic of the method Combine from Path a few months ago. Usually, even in production code, we tend to use string concatenation through either directly using ‘+’ or StringBuilder. Thing is, you do not want to directly use string concatenation to build your path. Try to think about using your […]
Hi, I’ve started a job as C# software engineer consultant on the 15th of this month. It’s given me the opportunity to go back over my XAML with WPF and Silverlight and doing some refactoring with C#. Doing so, I’ve been pushing my C# foo & re-discovered some things that I hadn’t use in a […]
Hey guys, What are extension methods ? Extension methods are quite simple to understand and they can be quite useful in time of needs. An extension method give you the power to create a new method for any type that you would like. They’re static methods designed to extend the capabilities of a type without […]
Hi there readers, So, we’re finally getting into the final pilar of object oriented programming, polymorphism. It’s a strange word at first, but we get use to it pretty fast. What does the word polymorphism mean? The root of polymorphism is traced back to the greeks. Poly means many and morphism mean forms. Basically, polymorphism […]
Hi there readers, We have talked about the first principle of object oriented programming in an earlier post. Now, it would be time to talk about the second one, inheritance. In the normal world, we talk about inheritance when one is about to receive some piece of land or a title from a loved one […]
Hi there readers, We’ll begin our journey down the road of oriented object programming with the first principle: encapsulation. When we create a software, we have multiple pieces of data which communicate with each other to do exactly what we wish to achieve. While we would love to live in a world were the users […]
Hi readers, First of all, I’d like to wish you to have a wonderful holidays with your family, wherever you are at this moment. During the first lectures, we went over some of the basics of programming. Even though it might have seen like a lot, it was just the core fundamentals we needed to […]
Hi readers, We’ve seen quite a few things in the last few days. Now, it’s time to put all the fundamentals to good use. Today, we’ll create a console application in which a user can access the menu of its bank account. At first, the user will need to set up his password to get […]
Welcome reader, We’ve gone through a lot of the core fundamentals of programming with C#. We’ve seen how to evaluate conditions in our program flow and different ways to repeat a block of code with the help of loops. We’ve seen different notions that can help us to really understand how a software program works […]
Welcome reader, When we first talk about, it was mentioned that the String data type were to be discussed in a later post. So what exactly are String ? If you remember, we have the char data type, which is used to store a single character inside a char variable. Sometimes, we need to manipulate […]
Welcome reader, This blog post will cover the use of loops. Loops are used to repeat the same operation(s) at least once. Usually, most programs you can think of will need this kind of functionnality. We can use loops to go through data or let a program start from the start, they can even be […]
Welcome reader, This will be the final part in the programming basics mini series in how to manage the program flow of your software application. We’re going to see how to manage the flow of your program when we’re using a switch. It is a structure that is mostly use when we have predefined conditions.When […]
Welcome reader, We’ll pick up where we left with how to manage the program flow of a software application. We saw how to use the if-else if-else structure. To evaluate a condition, we need comparaison operators. Those are use evaluate a boolean expression, which will either result a true or false. Below, you’ll be able […]
Welcome reader, Our journey into programming began with the use of variables, how to name and how to store data in them. Programming goes a bit further than this. When you tell your machine to perform a given operation, sometimes, you want to check a state or a condition before your console application performs the […]
Welcome reader, We haven’t create an application since the start of the programming basics. It is sort of a ritual that the first program that a programmer writes will print of the screen the following : “Hello World!”. So, we are actually going to write this as our first console application. Open your IDE and […]
Welcome reader, We’ll follow where we left off when we’ve talked about variables. When you are behind you screen, there is a lot more going on then just writing lines in the IDE to make you computer do something. There are a set of rules that you should always stick to make your code clearer. Before, […]
Welcome reader, This is the first part of a mini-serie to introduce the basics of programming with C#. Don’t forget to look at my GitHub account. I haven’t decide yet, but surely I will create a project which will resume every topic that I’ve talked about during the Programming basics serie. So, we’re finally there, […]
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