1 Introducing C# and .NET

This chapter covers

  • Understanding what C# and .NET are
  • Learning why you would use C# for your projects (and why you wouldn’t)
  • Switching to C# and how to get started

Another book on C#, you say? Yes, another one. Plenty of books are written about C# and .NET, but this book has one fundamental difference: I wrote this book to help you develop clean, idiomatic C# code in your day-to-day life. This book is not a reference book but rather a practical guide. This book does not cover things like how to write an if statement, what a method signature is, or what an object is. We are not concerned about syntax but instead focus on concepts and ideas. There is a difference between knowing the syntax of a language and being ...

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