Obviously, the goal of this book isn't to give you a nervous breakdown, but these next topics will definitely take you out of the beginner's cubicle and into the open air of object-oriented programming (OOP). Up to this point, we've been relying exclusively on predefined variable types that are part of the C# language; under-the-hood strings, lists, and dictionaries that are classes, which is why we can create them and use their properties through dot notation. However, relying on built-in types has one glaring weakness—the inability to deviate from the blueprints that C# has already set.
Creating your own classes gives you the freedom to define and configure blueprints of your own design, capturing ...