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Improving your C# Skills

By : Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan, John Callaway, Clayton Hunt, Rod Stephens
Book Image

Improving your C# Skills

By: Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan, John Callaway, Clayton Hunt, Rod Stephens

Overview of this book

This Learning Path shows you how to create high performing applications and solve programming challenges using a wide range of C# features. You’ll begin by learning how to identify the bottlenecks in writing programs, highlight common performance pitfalls, and apply strategies to detect and resolve these issues early. You'll also study the importance of micro-services architecture for building fast applications and implementing resiliency and security in .NET Core. Then, you'll study the importance of defining and testing boundaries, abstracting away third-party code, and working with different types of test double, such as spies, mocks, and fakes. In addition to describing programming trade-offs, this Learning Path will also help you build a useful toolkit of techniques, including value caching, statistical analysis, and geometric algorithms. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 High Performance by Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan • Practical Test-Driven Development using C# 7 by John Callaway, Clayton Hunt • The Modern C# Challenge by Rod Stephens
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
8
What to Know Before Getting Started
17
Files and Directories
18
Advanced C# and .NET Features
Index

Problems


Use the following problems to test your skills at working with random numbers and randomization. Give each problem a try before you turn to the solutions and download the example programs.

22. Random doubles

The Random class provides three overloaded versions of its Next method; one that returns a random integer, one that returns an integer between zero and an upper limit, and one that returns an integer between lower and upper limits.

Strangely, the Random class provides only one version of its NextDouble method. That version returns a double value between 0.0 and 1.0.

Add a NextDouble extension method to the Random class to return a random double value between lower and upper bounds.

23. Random items

Add a RandomItem extension method to a generic array to return a randomly selected item from the array. Write a second extension method to do the same for a generic list of items.

24. Randomize items

Write Randomize extension methods to randomize the items in a generic array or list.

25. Random...