What this book covers
Chapter 1, Starting with the Building Blocks of C#, gives an introduction to the language, its history, and its relationship with the Common Language Infrastructure and .NET Framework, as well as providing an introduction to the family of .NET frameworks used today. At the end, you learn about assemblies, how to create a project in Visual Studio, and how to write a Hello World program in C#.
Chapter 2, Data Types and Operators, walks you through the basic elements of the language, including the built-in data types, variables and constants, reference, and value types, nullable types, and array types, as well as type conversions and built-in operators.
Chapter 3, Control Statements and Exceptions, looks in depth at how to write selection statements and loops and briefly at working with exceptions.
Chapter 4, Understanding the Various User-Defined Types, provides information about classes, fields, properties, methods, constructors, how to pass arguments to methods, what access modifiers are, and other aspects related to classes. Toward the end, you will learn about structures and how they compare to classes, as well as enumerations.
