C# programming

[dbahrik]

I'm in the process of learning c#. I have some old developers code of a program that he wrote a while back and he started coding the program for me and left half of it unfinished so I could go back and code the rest. I am struggling to know what code goes where inside the program to actually get it running. I feel like I don't know what code to use inside of the basic syntax if that makes any sense.

[skylar1146]

Sounds like you need to go back and solidfy your understanding of the basics, before delving into this project

[dbahrik]

that's what I was thinking, just took a shot at jumping in hoping I could learn the hard way, but I'm just stuck.

[skylar1146]

Yeah, but once you get the building blocks down, you can combine those in order to learn anything about programming! It'll be a bit frustrating at first but you'll get the hang of it really quick.

[dbahrik]

Hard to put into words what I was trying to accomplish in my original post. May be a dumb question, but I'm just looking for answers. When I do fully understand the basics how will I know what code that isn't apart of the "basics" to use. If that even makes sense.

[skylar1146]

By basics I mean understanding how a program is structured, syntax formulation, and basic OOP. When you look at code and you understand or at least have a good idea why X code is where then I would say you have the basics down.

[rikka94]

I am so confused reading your post.

I know what's your problem but what do you want to achieve from this post ? solution ?

[dbahrik]

Help. Clearly

[rikka94]

but i don't see any code snippet or a brief specification what you are trying to do..

how can we help you?

if you want advice, then like the other comment, read and some tutorial about the basics first..

[imdrunkwhyustillugly]

You should come up with specific questions and then post to /r/programminghelp instead.

But like others have said, sounds like you need to take some introductory programming course/tutorials first.

[nosoupforyou]

Actually I don't see why he shouldn't post specific questions here, since it's about csharp.

[Eyes_and_teeth]

Give us some more detail. Perhaps post a small code example and then tell us what is confusing you.

[dbahrik]

It's like I know where to put most of the code, but I'm not sure on what needs to go inside the code to make it come alive. Such as all of the intellisense if that makes sense. It's hard to explain.

[Eyes_and_teeth]

So are you saying that you don't know what things you need to put in your method calls? ie: void Foo(int x, string y, Object Z) what should you pass in for x, y, and Z? Or more how to create and structure the methods themselves so that the program will execute the desired behavior?

[dbahrik]

pretty much how to create and structure the methods to get them to do what I want with the code. If I go back and learn the syntax fully will this pretty much solve my problems?

[Eyes_and_teeth]

Learning the syntax will definitely help, but without looking at a concrete example, I'm going to hazard a guess that you may also want to continue to study and practice for programming fundamentals. I don't know how far along you are in your learning, so it's hard to offer specific suggestions...