Below is a list of programming skills we aim to mostly cover between years 7 and 11 in computing and computer science. If you feel you are ahead, or behind, take a look through the list and practise the skills yourself. There are many resources online, especially on YouTube, that explain how to use C# and provide ideas for projects and tasks.

Most of these skills can be achieved by programming a console application (like in repl.it). Once you feel you are at the expert level though, you may want to consider programming windows applications using an environment like SharpDevelop.

Basic

• Outputting text to the console or a text label
• Declaring string variables
• Getting a user input from the console or a text box
• Joining strings together (concatenating)
• Performing IF statements testing for equality
• Declaring integer variables
• Performing calculations using Integers
• Performing IF statements using the operators >, >=, <, <=, !=

Intermediate

• Converting data types (integer to string, string to integer)
• Quitting a program when user enters ‘exit’ using a while(true) loop
• Defining and calling your own void subroutine (procedure)
• Defining and calling your own subroutine that returns a value (function)
• Declaring and performing calculations using doubles
• Declaring and using an array
• Performing a Case Switch selection

Expert

• Performing For loops
• Declaring and using lists
• Looping through arrays and lists
• Reading and writing to files
• Using and manipulating objects on a Windows form (labels, text boxes, buttons, radio buttons, check boxes, list boxes and combo boxes)
• Moving objects around the screen when the arrow keys are pressed

Infinity and beyond

• Creating and using your own classes
• Dynamically creating form objects by code
• Implementing networking capabilities