1 Hello World!
This chapter covers
- What is C#
- What can we create with C#
- The project creation process for a C# console application
- A tour of our template of choice
- Overview of Visual Studio Community Edition
- What to expect from the rest of the book
Learning a new skill can often be a daunting and scary task. While certainly not unobtainable, it feels far to reach and hard to grasp. One has to think about finding a better way of accomplishing these goals without turning the journey of doing so into a regrettable memory. If we try and search for our favorite learning experiences, we tend to remember moments of accomplishment, self-improvement, and problem-solving. We tend to think of moments when we tried to use our abilities and got closer to mastering them every time. While learning the theory is most important, practice makes us experts.
That makes us consider why we cannot just turn the complete learning process into real-life problem-solving exercises. So it is this concept this book focuses on, learning a new skill in a dynamic yet meaningful way.