Title: From Java to C# a workshop on the how, what, and why
Abstract: The .NET platform is incredibly rich, allowing you to build a variety of applications with a multitude of languages. Using a common development environment, students can program in languages such as C#, VB, C++, F#, and Python, creating software with a range of interfaces (console, GUI and web) and functionality (scientific, database, distributed, service-oriented, game and robotic). Microsoft's flagship development environment, Visual Studio 2008, is freely-available to students via Microsoft's DreamSpark program, along with Windows, SQL Server, and Expression Studio. These same tools are available for a nominal fee to institutional departments through Microsoft's MSDN Academic Alliance. If you prefer, you can work outside of Visual Studio with command-line compilers, editors, and 3rd-party IDEs, or step off the Windows platform entirely and work with .NET on Linux, OS X or BSD using Mono.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
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