C SHARP PERFORMANCE TRICKS HOW TO RADICALLY OPTIMIZE YOUR CODE TUTORIAL
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This is the BEST COURSE CHOICE for beginners and intermediate C# developers who want to learn how to write clean, elegant and high-performance C# code

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TITLE: C sharp Performance Tricks: How To Radically Optimize Your Code

PUBLISHER: UDEMY
AUTHOR: Mark Farragher
LEVEL: Appropriate For All
RUNTIME: 2.5 hours
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
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STORE DATE: 2015.03.03
RELEASE DATE: 2015.03.16
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TUTORIAL

Last Update: 14 March 2015

Indispensable for the beginning pro
“How to Write Fast C# Code” is basically the next step for any intermediate C# developer. This is the stuff my teachers never had time for in school but after applying a couple of these simple tweaks I got my sluggish methods to run 20 times faster – Niels

Clear, concise and valuable
Mark takes you through several easy to apply performance tricks in a well-structured course. The videos are clear and easy to follow and provide valuable knowledge for the beginner and intermediate C# programmer – Marco

You might have enrolled in an “How to program in C#” course, or learned the language at school or university. But here’s a sobering fact: most courses only teach you how to write code and not how to write great code

Niels said it best when he wrote in his review:

This is the stuff my teachers never had time for in school

Niels’ teachers did the best they could, but the .NET Framework is huge. For any given problem there are 5-10 solutions, and it is not always clear which solution to pick

For example, let’s say you’re adding 4 strings together. Should you use string or StringBuilder? If you always use a StringBuilder you get Append() methods all over the place and your code looks very convoluted and hard to read. What to do?

How about storing a collection of values? There’s a bewildering array of choices – single or multidimensional arrays, “jagged” arrays, the ArrayList class, generic lists, custom collections, dictionaries… Which one should you pick?

I will help you make those choices

This course will help you out. In a series of bite-sized lectures I will cover all of these issues one by one, and measure the performance of each possible solution. You’ll see that some choices have terrible performance, and other seemingly obvious performance optimizations actually don’t do much at all

But wait, there’s more! I will not only show you great performance tricks, but also dive into Common Intermediate Code (CIL), the language that the C# compiler compiles to. If this sounds daunting, don’t worry! The CIL language is actually very easy to read and understand. I’ll take you through the basics in a concise 15-minute lecture

After completing this course you will be able to read performance optimizations straight out of CIL code, like a pro

Note: The price will go up as new lectures are added. If you get the course now, you’ll get all the new lectures for free!

Meet your instructor

Hi, my name is Mark Farragher and I’m pleased to meet you

I have worked in IT for almost 20 years in many different roles, including CTO, Online Marketing Specialist, Consultant Corporate Trainer, Project Manager and Software Developer. I am a serial entrepreneur and have launched two start-ups in The Netherlands

I worked as a Microsoft Certified Trainer for many years, on the subjects of Visual Basic .NET, C# ASP.NET, SQL Server, Microsoft CRM and Microsoft BizTalk. I also gave many personalized trainings for Philips, DHL, KPN, Oc and other large companies

My most noteworthy training was for the International Criminal Court in The Hague. I trained war-crime investigators in the use of SQL Server to verify witness statements and validate evidence used against war criminals

Why should you take this course?

There are many possible reasons for you to take this course:

Maybe you have just completed a beginner-level C# course, and now you want to take your skills to the next level?

Or you might be working on a critical section of code in a C# project, and need to optimize your code as much as possible

Or maybe you’re preparing for a C# related job interview? You need to prepare yourself for any performance-related questions you might get asked

You are about to lean all the secrets of professional code optimization

In the first section we will cover some fundamental aspects of the .NET Framework, that will help you understand the performance improvements in later sections

You’ll learn the difference between the stack and the heap, and how this can affect the performance of your code You will also learn what value types and reference types are, how the String class works, and what boxing and unboxing is

We will end the section with a comprehensive look at Common Intermediate Language (CIL): the ?machine language” that C# compiles to. At the end of this lesson you will be able to read and understand simple CIL programs

Basic optimizations – the low hanging fruit

In this section we’ll focus on some easy-to-implement optimizations that can speed up your code by a factor of 100-1000x. We will look at arrays, strings and collection classes, and demonstrate a few simple changes to your code that have a dramatic impact on performance

We will look at each optimization in turn, both in the C# source code and in the CIL compiled code. I will show you what goes on behind the scenes, and how each optimization changes the CIL code to improve the code performance

Advanced optimizations

This section will take you into advanced topics such as method inlining, arrays allocated on the stack and pointer operations. We’ll go into the details and show you how these optimizations work, in which scenario’s you should use them, and if they are actually worth the effort

Some programmers swear by the use of ‘stackalloc’, claiming that this keyword gives your arrays a performance boost. But is this true? This section will show you the answer!

But wait, there’s more!

This course already contains over 2 hours of video content, but it’s not finished yet. Over the next couple of months I am going to expand the content in this course to at least 4+ hours

If you enroll in this course now, you will get free access to any future material I add to the course for life

You will also be able to send me a message, and ask me for help with any performance-related C# problem you might have. I will answer on weekdays and am available for live calls on Fridays

With your permission, I will collect the most interesting questions into ?Blackboard Friday” sessions, where I will credit you by name on video, discuss your problem and offer solutions. You will get free lifelong access to these sessions

Finally, I intend to create a range of courses around the topic of becoming a C# professional. Upcoming courses will be on the subject of writing elegant code, interfacing with unmanaged code, and using best patterns and practices

If you enroll in this course, you will get a minimum 50% discount on all my upcoming courses