Writing Your First C# Program

Now that we’ve gained a proper introduction to software engineering and programming, it’s time that we try it out ourselves. You may now be wondering, with all these different languages and platforms, how do software engineers get started writing code on a computer? In the previous chapter, we learned about SDKs, libraries, and tools. Keep in mind that although they are how a software engineer would develop software, the tools software engineers use to build software are software themselves. That’s right – software engineers use software to build software and, just like any software that you would add to a computer or phone, they will typically download and install the things they need to get the job done.

Now, you will get to experience how this is done. This chapter will guide you through setting up a development environment with .NET and C#, which includes installing the software runtime and SDK and a code editor. We&...