Summary

In this chapter, we have looked at the fundamental steps of the software development process. You have also learned about some of the advantages of object-oriented programming, about the design goals of C# and .NET, and have been presented with the basic mechanics for creating a C# program.

The following are the essential points we have covered in this chapter:

The software development process described in this chapter only contains a core subset of the many different approaches used in today's software development processes. The core steps are software specification, software design, writing the software, and validating and debugging the software.

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