C Primer Plus (5th Edition)

Chapter 2. YOUR FIRST C# PROGRAM

You will learn about the following in this chapter:

• The fundamental process of software development and related basic techniques

• Algorithms and how their set of exact instructions can be represented with the help of a popular notation form called pseudocode.

• The three types of errors you will meet as a computer programmer

• Essential concepts of object-oriented programming and how this paradigm attempts to solve programming problems related to earlier programming styles

• Source code reuse along with component-oriented programming and how C# and .NET facilitates these important concepts.

• The assembly and why it is a core concept in .NET

• Why you should reuse the vast amount of functionality and expertise collected in the .NET Framework class library

• How the most important computer language predecessors of C# have evolved over the past sixty years

• How C# and .NET relate and their overall design goals

• How to write, compile, and execute a specific C# program