Learning C# 3.0

How This Book Is Organized

Here’s a short summary of the chapters in this book and what you’ll find inside:

Chapter 1, C# and .NET Programming

Here, we’ll introduce you to the C# language and the .NET platform that supports it. That’s important background information so that you can see how C# fits into the larger scheme. More important, though, we’ll get you started writing real code. You’ll create your first working program and see how easy it is to program in C#.

Chapter 2, Visual Studio 2008 and C# Express 2008

When you build something, be it a house, a book, or a program, you have to know your tools. The tools for C# are Visual Studio 2008 and its free counterpart, C# Express. In this chapter, we’ll walk you through them so that you’re more comfortable with the interface.

Chapter 3, C# Language Fundamentals

Now that you have your feet wet, it’s time to begin at the beginning. In this chapter we’ll introduce the most basic concepts of C#: statements, types, and variables. We’ll also discuss constants and enumerations. And because you want your code to show you something, we’ll demonstrate strings and how to write to the screen.

Chapter 4, Operators

After you’ve learned about variables, you’ll want to do something with them, and that’s where operators come in. We’ll start with the most basic operator, for assignment, and then we’ll show you the mathematical operators, and the operators for comparison.

Chapter 5, Branching

Without branching, your program would proceed in a straight line ...