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Critical stuff that every junior C# developer must know

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Says Mosh Hamedani, author of courses on C# at udemy

Mosh, I just got my first junior level C# job. What advice do you have for me? What are some critical stuff I need to learn?

So, whether you’re looking for your first junior C# job, or you just got one, this post will give you an overview of the kind of skills that you need to be familiar with as a junior C# developer. I’ve tried to put it in a “learning path” that would give you direction, whether you want to build web or desktop applications.

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5 inspiring examples – programming languages that popular computer games are written on

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Video games are a big business. Total revenue for the U.S. video game industry reached $23.5 billion last year, a 5 percent increase from 2014. Behind every video game are programmers who help develop the product. Although programming languages vary by game, a few are the most popular. Here’s a look at the languages powering video game development.

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Searching for bugs in Mono: there are hundreds of them!

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It’s very interesting to check large projects. As a rule, we do manage to find unusual and peculiar errors, and tell people about them. Also, it’s a great way to test our analyzer and improve all its different aspects. I’ve long been waiting to check ‘Mono’; and finally, I got the opportunity. I should say that this check really proved its worth as I was able to find a lot of entertaining things. This article is about the bugs we found, and several nuances which arose during the check.

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Checking the Source Code of MSBuild

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As we continue developing PVS-Studio static code analyzer, we often have to check large open-source projects by renowned developers. The fact that even such projects contain a certain amount of bugs adds even more sense and weight to our work. Unfortunately, everybody makes mistakes. No matter how carefully you control your code’s quality, there is just no way to avoid “human error”. As long as software is developed by humans, analysis tools like PVS-Studio will remain relevant and needed. Today, we are going to discuss errors found in the source code of MSBuild, which is, unfortunately, not perfect either.

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Long-Awaited Check of CryEngine V

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In May 2016, German game-development company Crytek made a decision to upload the source code of their game engine CryEngine V to Github. The engine is written in C++ and has immediately attracted attention of both the open-source developer community and the team of developers of PVS-Studio static analyzer who regularly scan the code of open-source projects to estimate its quality. A lot of great games were created by a number of video-game development studios using various versions of CryEngine, and now the engine has become available to even more developers. This article gives an overview of errors found in the project by PVS-Studio static analyzer.

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How to not shoot yourself in the foot when working with serialization

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Despite the fact that it’s quite easy and comfortable to use the serialization mechanism in C#, there are some points that are worth taking note of. This article is about the ways in which you might shoot yourself in the foot working with serialization, code examples, where the main pitfalls are, and also about the way PVS-Studio can help you avoid getting into trouble.

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