POS/408 Week 1

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Individual: Console Display Message
The Software Development Company wants to develop software for internal use. The company hired you to develop a Visual Studio® C# Console Application displaying a Software Development Company Welcome message on the console.
Using Visual Studio® and relating C# programming concepts, write a program that displays a welcome message on the console.
Review debugging in Lesson 2, "An Introduction to C# and .NET" of the Pluralsight course C# Fundamentals with Visual Studio 2015.
Demonstrate basic debugging capabilities by inserting breakpoints in the code. Run the program in debug mode and provide a screenshot showing the use of the breakpoints. The program should have the following characteristics:

• Compile and Execute without errors
• Meets specifications by displaying a welcome message on the console
• Logic flow is clear, concise, and effective
• User inputs and outputs should be clear on screen
• Validation for input types and data format
• Appropriate indentation to logically illustrate program structure
• Identifiers logically describe use
• Naming conventions are consistent
• Comments and headers to explain processing that is not obvious

Zip your Visual Studio® project folder into a ZIP file with your name in the file name. In Visual Studio®, you can locate the folder with your solution by left clicking on the solution node in the Solution Explorer. Look at the Properties window to find the folder name in the Path property. Locate this folder in File Explorer and zip the folder. 
Submit your assignment.

Wk 1 – Discussion – Runtime Environments

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Discuss the .NET runtime environment and the Java® runtime environment. How does this help you better understand the .NET runtime?
Discuss the differences among the .NET environment, Visual Studio®, and the C# programming language. In your discussion, identify and discuss the different components of a Visual Studio® C# solution, including files generated by the IDE.

POS/408 Week 2

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Individual: Adding Variables
The Software Development Company now requests you build a C# program to collect information on software developers.
For this week's assignment, build on the Week One Individual Assignment, "Console Display Message," by entering one software developer's name, addresses, and monthly gross pay. The program should display on the console the software developer's name, address, monthly gross pay, and taxes paid for that month. Taxes are set at 7% of the monthly gross pay.
Using Visual Studio® and C# programming concepts, write a program to meet the specifications of the company's request. The program should have the following characteristics:
Compile and Execute without errors
Meets specifications by displaying on the console a welcome message along with the following information:

• Software developer name
• Address
• Gross monthly pay
• Taxes
• Logic flow is clear, concise, and effective
• User inputs and outputs should be clear on screen
• Validation for input types and data format
• Appropriate indentation to logically illustrate program structure
• Identifiers logically describe use
• Naming conventions are consistent
• Comments and headers to explain processing that is not obvious

Zip your Visual Studio® solution project folder so it can be submitted for grading. In Visual Studio®, you can locate the folder with your solution by left clicking on the solution node in the Solution Explorer. Look at the Properties window to find the folder name in the Path property. Locate this folder in File Explorer and zip the folder. 
Submit your assignment.

Learning Team: Methods Can Help with Maintenance

As software developers, you know coding standards are an important part of software development, and nearly every organization has a coding standard that developers are expected to follow. You might even be expected to collaborate on defining the coding standard for your team or organization. 
Refer to "C# Coding Conventions (C# Programming Guide)" from this week's reading.

Discuss, as a team of software developers, how using methods helps with code maintenance.

Create a 1/2- to 1-page coding standard for your team that specifies how methods are to be used in your team assignment.

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Wk 2 Supporting Activity: Creating a C# Program

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Review this week's reading "Unicode and .NET" on the C# in Depth website on the storage requirements for different C# data types. Identify the minimum and maximum value for each type.
Discuss the role of C# data types and variable in C# programming. How does using Unicode or non-Unicode data type impact storage of data on disk or in memory? What do you see as the advantages and disadvantages for each.
Create a program that demonstrates the following different types of C# variable scope: Class-Level, Method-Level, and Nested. Post your code in the discussion forum.
Discuss another example from a situation you might face in which you would use one of the types of scope.

POS/408 Week 3

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Individual: Branching in C#
The Software Development Company now requests you enhance the C# program to display on the console additional information on all the software developers' information: 
For this week's assignment, build on the Week Two Individual Assignment, "Adding Variables," by asking the user to enter the names, addresses, and monthly gross pay of three software developers. The program should display on the console the software developer name, address, monthly gross pay, and taxes paid for that month. Taxes are set at 7% of the monthly gross pay. The program should also display the annual gross pay and annual taxes of all three software developers. 
Using Visual Studio® and C# programming concepts, write a program to meet the specifications of the company's request. The program should have the following characteristics:
Compile and Execute without errors
Meets specifications by displaying on the console a welcome message along with the following information on all three software developers:

• Software developer name
• Address
• Gross monthly pay
• Monthly Taxes
• Annual gross pay
• Annual taxes
• Logic flow is clear, concise, and effective
• User inputs and outputs should be clear on screen
• Validation for input types and data format
• Appropriate indentation to logically illustrate program structure
• Identifiers logically describe use
• Naming conventions are consistent
• Comments and headers to explain processing that is not obvious

Zip your Visual Studio® solution project folder so it can be submitted for grading. In Visual Studio®, you can locate the folder with your solution by left clicking on the solution node in the Solution Explorer. Look at the Properties window to find the folder name in the Path property. Locate this folder in File Explorer and zip the folder. 
Submit your assignment.

Learning Team: Understanding and Applying Bitwise Operator
A common use of bitwise operators is the use of bit fields. If you and your team of software developers has a set of permissions (Read, Create, Update, and Delete), it is possible to use bit fields to store these values in a single byte rather than needing 4 bytes, one for each permission.
Refer to "C Bitwise Operators" on the Microsoft® Developer Network website.
As a team of software developers, research C# bitwise operators, write a 1/2- to 1-page C# program in Word demonstrating their use for this set of permissions.

Wk 3 Discussion - Understanding 'if' Statements and Recursion

Apply conditional statements in C# programming by providing an example of a nested if statement using various logical operators. Include else statements and at least one negation operator.
Discuss different ways to code the following:

• If an account balance is less than $100, warn the account holder according to the following rules:
• if the balance is between $50 and $100 warn the account holder that the balance is low
• if the balance is between $25 and $50 then warn the account holder that their balance is critically low
• if the balance is less than $25 warn the account holder to call the bank.

Recursion is a different way to implement repeating statements. Some problems can only be solved with recursion.
Implement an example of recursion in C#. 
Discuss problems with recursion. In what situations must recursion be used?

POS/408 Week 4

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Individual: Error Handling
The Software Development Company requests you add user error exception handling capabilities to the C# program.

For this week's assignment, build on the Week Three Individual Assignment, "Branching in C#," by asking the user to record the software developers' information in a C# data structure object record. The C# data structure object record must include the type of employee as either W2 or 1099 using the following requirements: 

• The 1099 software development employees' records do not include or calculate any taxes
• The program properly handles and informs the user about errors on user input
• The program demonstrates in the code the use of references types
• The program displays on the console all the software developers' data, monthly pay, monthly taxes, annual gross pay, annual taxes, and net pay

Using Visual Studio® and C# programming concepts, write a program to meet the specifications of the company's request. The program should have the following characteristics:

• Compile and Execute without errors
• Meets specifications by displaying on the console a welcome message along with the following information on three software developers:
  Software developer name
  • Address
  • Gross monthly pay
  • Annual gross pay
  • Employee type: W2/1099
  • Monthly and annual taxes determined by employee type
  • Logic flow is clear, concise, and effective; demonstrates exception handling routines and reference types by catching and displaying user data entry errors and implementing reference types as part of the code
  • User inputs and outputs should be clear on screen
  • Validation for input types and data format
  • Appropriate indentation to logically illustrate program structure Identifiers logically describe use
  • Naming conventions are consistent
  • Comments and headers to explain processing that is not obvious

Zip your Visual Studio® solution project folder so it can be submitted for grading. In Visual Studio®, you can locate the folder with your solution by left clicking on the solution node in the Solution Explorer. Look at the Properties window to find the folder name in the Path property. Locate this folder in File Explorer and zip the folder. 

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Learning Team: Apply Inheritance Using Class Hierarchies

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You and your team of software developers are creating a game for children. The game has different types of animals.

As a team of software developers, create in a 1-page Word document the class "Animal," including appropriate methods and properties that are common to all animals, subclasses of Animal, such as Cats, Dogs, and Birds, and appropriate methods and properties unique to these subclasses. STOP

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Wk4 - Discussion - Custom Exceptions and Object Oriented Programing

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The exception class represents errors that occur during application execution.
Create a custom exception class.
Discuss how you would handle the custom exception you created. What do you see as the advantages and disadvantages of custom exceptions?
Demonstrate through code and explanation each of the following object oriented concepts:

• Inheritance
• Encapsulation
• Polymorphism

Discuss the advantages of applying object orienting coding principles.

POS/408 Week 5

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Individual: Data Structures
The Software Development Company now requests you add final elements to the C# program.
For this week's assignment, build on the Week Four Individual Assignment, "Error Handling," by reading the software developers' C# data structure records data from a file (data.txt), implement an array data structure containing the data, and display on the console all the software developers' data, monthly pay, monthly taxes, annual gross pay, annual taxes, and net pay. 
Program Input File:
Create a Comma Separated Values (CSV) text file and named "data.txt." The data.txt file shall include information on at least five developers put into rows and including software developer name, addresses, and monthly gross pay separated by a comma.
Using Visual Studio® and C# programming concepts, write a program to meet the specifications of the company's request. The program should have the following characteristics:

• Compile and Execute without errors
• Meets specifications by demonstrating file handling, array data structure manipulation, and console output mastery by accomplishing the following:
• Read software developers' data from a file
• Input the data into an array data structure
• Display the software developers' data on the console
• Logic flow is clear, concise, and effective
• User inputs and outputs should be clear on screen
• Validation for input types and data format
• Appropriate indentation to logically illustrate program structure
• Identifiers logically describe use
• Naming conventions are consistent
• Comments and headers to explain processing that is not obvious

Zip your Visual Studio® solution project folder so it can be submitted for grading. In Visual Studio®, you can locate the folder with your solution by left clicking on the solution node in the Solution Explorer. Look at the Properties window to find the folder name in the Path property. Locate this folder in File Explorer and zip the folder. 
Submit your assignment.

Learning Team: Saving Objects to a File
You and your team of software developers are experiencing problems saving the state of a program between different times that the program is run.
An object oriented program state can be maintained by saving the state of the objects in the program. Also, you can transfer the state of an object between different computer systems by creating the object based on the state once it is saved onto that other computer. In order to provide a way to persist object state, you must serialize objects in C#.

As a team of software developers and using the classes created in the Week Four Learning Team Collaborative Activity, "Learn How to Apply Inheritance Using Class Hierarchies," serialize the objects of the classes from that activity to a file as a Visual Studio® solution.

Zip your Visual Studio® solution project folder so it can be submitted for grading. In Visual Studio®, you can locate the folder with your solution by left clicking on the solution node in the Solution Explorer. Look at the Properties window to find the folder name in the Path property. Locate this folder in File Explorer and zip the folder.

Wk 5 - Discussion - Applying Data Structures and Sorting

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Knowing when to apply a data structure for a given business problem is an important skill for developers to know.
Research the following .NET data structures:

• List
• ArrayList
• LinkedList

Discuss examples of business problems that could be solved using each of the data structures.
 Knowing how to sort data in an array and knowing which sorting algorithm to use makes implementing sorting easier.
Discuss different ways to sort an array in C#. What do you see as the advantages and disadvantages of each type of sorting algorithm?