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98-361: MTA: Software Development Fundamentals (C#) : Module 1: Introduction to Programming  :

Understanding Computer Programming

c# for beginners

To learn c# programming you have to know the material from beginning, C# was created at Microsoft in the late 1990s, and its chief architect was Anders Hejlsberg. As an object-oriented language, C# supports data encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, and method overriding. It is a powerful and simple language for building interoperable, scalable, and robust applications. Several of C#’s features are mentioned next:

• With C#, you can develop console windows as well as web applications.
•  C# supports garbage collection and automatic memory management.
•  C# includes native support for the Component Object Model (COM) and Windows-based applications.
•  To avoid redundancy, the values of the primitive data types are automatically initialized to zeros, and reference types like objects and classes are initialized to null.
•  C# produces portable code.
•  Its programs execute in a secure, controlled, runtime environment.
•  C# supports generics, partial types, and anonymous methods that expand the scope, power, and range of the language.
•  It also supports language-integrated query (LINQ) and lambda expressions. LINQ enables you to write database queries in C# programming. Lambda expressions are used in LINQ expressions for efficient coding.

C# doesn’t support unsafe type casts or pointers, and it doesn’t accept 0 or 1 for Boolean values false and true, respectively. Because C# automatically uses the .NET class library and it is automatically portable to all .NET environments, the next section covers the .NET framework and its relationship with C#.

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