Plan for DotNet Curriculum

Version 0.1 (February 9, 2016)

• Steve Brownlee
• Jo Ann Brooks

Milestone 0: Machine Configuration

Install and Setup

• Virtual machines
• Windows licenses
• Visual Studio
• SQL Server Management Studio

Milestone 1: Learning C# and Visual Studio

Topics

• Understanding Visual Studio (VS)
• OOP principles
• Intro to C#
• Testing framework in VS

Exercises

• Koans (some, limited number)
  • methods, strings, arrays, inheritance?, lambdas?
• Cheers?
• Simple tests in VS
• Sorting algorithms?

Group Project

Simple Calculator

Milestone 2: MVC Paradigm and Databases

Topics

• What is a database?
• Creating ERDs
• Model
  • ORM / Entity Framework / Repository
  • Data Annotations & Regex
  • Testing (including Mocks)
  • Patterns
• View / Controller
  • Action Results
  • RESTful APIs
  • Helper Methods
  • UI/UX, Design
• MVC App (bare bones)
• User management (ApplicationUser vs. MyAppUser)
• Migrations

Exercises

• ???

Group Project

Small-scale MVC app with ASP.NET 4.6.

Milestone 3: Building an API

Topics (to be fleshed out over time)

• Web API
• Routing

Exercises

• ???

Group Project

Small-scale Web API with ASP.NET 4.6.