C# A Programmer's Introduction, 1/e: Tour of the Book (Continued)

Appendix A-Operator Precedence Chart

This appendix lists C# operators and their precedence.

Appendix B-Number Systems

This appendix explains the binary, octal, decimal and hexadecimal number systems. It also reviews the conversion of numbers among these bases and illustrates mathematical operations in each base.

Appendix C-Career Opportunities

This appendix provides career resources for C# programmers.

Appendix D-Visual Studio .NET Debugger

This appendix introduces the Visual Studio .NET debugger for locating logic errors in programs. Key features of this appendix include setting breakpoints, stepping through programs line-by-line and "watching" variable values.

Appendix E-ASCII Character Set

This appendix contains a table of the 128 ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) alphanumeric symbols and their corresponding integer values.

Appendix F-Unicode^®

This appendix introduces the Unicode Standard, an encoding scheme that assigns unique numeric values to the characters of most of the world's languages. We include a Windows application that uses Unicode encoding to print welcome messages in several languages.

Appendices G and H-Introduction to HyperText Markup Language 4: 1 & 2

These appendices provide an introduction to HTML-a markup language for describing the elements of a Web page so that a browser, such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer, can render that page. The reader should be familiar with these appendices before studying Chapter 17, ASP .NET, Web Forms and Web Controls. No C# programming is presented in these appendices. Some key topics covered in Appendix G include incorporating text and images in an HTML document, linking to other HTML documents on the Web, incorporating special characters (such as copyright and trademark symbols) into an HTML document and separating parts of an HTML document with horizontal lines (called horizontal rules). In Appendix H, we discuss more substantial HTML elements and features. We demonstrate how to present information in lists and tables. We discuss how to collect information from users browsing a site. We explain how to use internal linking and image maps to make Web pages easier to navigate. We also discuss how to use frames to display multiple documents in the browser window.

Appendix I-HTML Special Characters

This appendix provides many commonly used HTML special characters, called character entity references.

Appendix J-HTML Colors

This appendix lists commonly used HTML color names and their corresponding hexadecimal values.

Appendix K-Crystal Reports

Visual Studio .NET integrates a special edition of Crystal Reports^®-a Windows-based report generator. This appendix presents the resources that Crystal Decisions, the company that produces Crystal Reports, offers on its Web site and overviews Crystal Report's unique functionality and features in Visual Studio .NET.