Learn To Program In C

Learn To Program In C

Learn To Program In C

Introduction

C#, or C Sharp, is a reasoanbly recent invention. Many programmers have only just come to accept that Java is reasoanbly stable and can be used for industrial banking applications, and here is Microsoft foisting another C++ look-alike on us. Is that all C# is, though?

There is more to C# programming than that, however, and it does play a fundamental part of the .NET strategy that Microsoft is following. Notice that we have mentioned Microsoft twice in as many paragraphs, which gives us the first clue : C# is a Windows thing.

What does C# Programming involve?

C# programming looks hauntingly familiar to anyone programming in C++, Java, or even Visual Basic, although that last one is a stretch. The point is that C# is an entirely object oriented, pointer-less self-contained (self-managed) programming language.