Learning C# 3.0

Test Your Knowledge: Exercises

Exercise 7-1. Write a program with a Math class that has four methods: Add, Subtract, Multiply, and Divide, each of which takes two parameters. Call each method from Main( ) and provide an appropriate output statement to demonstrate that each method works. You don’t need to have the user provide input; just provide the two integers to the methods within Main( ).

Exercise 7-2. Modify the program from Exercise 7-1 so that you do not have to create an instance of Math to call the four methods. Call the four methods again from Main( ) to demonstrate that they work.

Exercise 7-3. Create a class Book that you could use to keep track of book objects. Each Book object should have a title, author, publisher, and ISBN (which should be a string, rather than a numeric type, so that the ISBN can start with a 0 or include an X). The class should have a DisplayBook( ) method to output that information to the console. In Main( ), create three Book objects with this data.

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Because all three books have the same publisher, you should initialize that field in your class.

Exercise 7-4. You might think it isn’t possible to draw geometric shapes using the console output, and you’d be mostly right. We can simulate drawing shapes, though, by imagining a graph and ...