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Introduction to C#

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Introduction to C#

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- [Instructor] Before we get into programming, let's learn a little bit more about the language that we're going to be using in this course. C# was a language that came from the .NET initiative and it has its basis on the C language. It has a lot of similarities to Java as well and we'll see some of these as we begin programming. We keep referring to it as C# .NET. The .NET is really a key identifying that C# is part of the .NET framework. Because it is part of the .NET framework, when you compile the application, everything gets reduced to what's referred to as a Common Language Runtime or CLR. At runtime, it all gets compiled in such a way that you can use whatever language you want within the .NET framework and pretty much have the power of any other language within that framework. Now, what this does is it brings the language choice back to you as the user. You don't have to use a language just because of what functionality may be available within the language. You use a language…

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