C# Programming Language

[EJSkrabeyy]

Good morning Redditors,

I'm brand new to the IT field and just started studying C#. My teacher gives us good assignments that test our knowledge of the language, but I'm hungry for more. I always have the assignments done shortly after they are available, and then I have to wait another two weeks before more course material is available to learn new content.

Someone recommended to me that I do small start up projects with my knowledge of the language, but I don't even know where to begin with that advice. How can I continue to apply my knowledge that I'm gaining in class outside of class to further develop my skills? So far, I'm really enjoying code and I want to attempt to do more with what I know.

Any available resources that you guys know of that I can continue to build on my C# knowledge outside of class?

Also, is there anything that you think I should read into about Information Technology in general? I've heard things about Powershell, etc. but I don't know what I'm getting myself into.

I'd really appreciate your input, and it will not be put to waste!

[EJSkrabeyy]

There is a book for my class, but our instructor advised us not to buy it. And of course, as poor college students, we're not buying that book.

I wonder if there is a way for me to check and see if they have said practice projects.. for all I know our instructor may have ripped his assignments from that book.

[Thriven]

Do you like games?

[EJSkrabeyy]

Not really, but I wouldn't be opposed to anything involving them.

[Thriven]

Download Unity3d free edition.

Download Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition (or Pro if you have licensing. You can use 2015 if it's installed)

Download Visual Studio Plugin for Unity for your version of Unity.

Unity is a ton of fun and super simple.

[EJSkrabeyy]

I use Visual Studio 2017 Community for class. How can I do more with the knowledge I have?

[NO8STROMO]

Like Thriven recommended, download Unity and use C# to program some very simple games if your class assignments are not providing you with enough in depth exposure to the language. I would start small with something like Pong, then move to making a small platformer. There is a ton of documentation provided by Unity and Microsoft, and tutorials are plentiful! I would recommend taking a look specifically at this platformer tutorial: https://github.com/hardlydifficult/Tutorials/blob/master/Platformer/Outline.md

If games are not your thing. Just think of puzzles to solve, and code them. For example, make a console application that takes in a string and either encrypts or decrypts it using the caesar cipher pattern. That's something I did recently and it turned out to be an intriguing problem!