Question

My comfort level with java is good , I wanted to teach my friend C# (where I would not consider myself expert in anyway). From the perspective of interviews what should I be studying/implementing myself in C# before i can teach her from an interview perspective. I am not a big fan of a language specific interviews but then my friend has little programming experience.

EDIT:What are the most important aspects of the C# language that you would recommend studying for an interview.

Answer 1

I tend to take the view that the things you should know for an interview are the things you need to know for core development – at least if the interviewer is any good.

So, for C# I would make sure you’re comfortable with:

• Properties
• Reference types vs value types
• Parameter passing (what ref means etc)
• Generics (quite different to Java)
• Delegates and events
• ‘using’ statements
• Exception handling

Slightly more involved:

• Nullable value types
• Partial types
• Iterator blocks (these are fun to play with)

If you feel like tackling C# 3:

• Lambda expressions
• Extension methods
• Basic grasp of how query expressions are processed (i.e. syntactic sugar; details not as important)
• Object and collection initializers