Part II. The C# Language

There are two parts to learning a new programming language: the language itself and the libraries that it comes with. This part of the book is concerned with the C# language—the keywords, the operators, and how you can perform basic programming tasks such as creating a variable, performing a calculation, and defining and using a new data type.

There is a lot of detail in the chapters in this part of the book, and some of the chapters are relatively long. It is easy to be overwhelmed by C#, especially if you are new to object-oriented programming and have not used a similar language such as C++ or Java. I have included lots of code samples to put things in context and diagrams that show you how C# language features are used. ...

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