A quick background of C#

Let me just say it out loud right off the bat: C# is a knock-off of Java. If you know Java, but not C#, you’re going to have a very easy time. Now, pretend I didn’t lead with that and allow me to slip on my corduroy sport coat. The one with the patches on the elbows. I have a tobacco pipe in the front pocket of the jacket sticking up so that you can see it. Naturally, in this day and age, nobody would dream of putting tobacco or anything else into it. That’d be wrong. But I need to look as much like a college professor as possible, so I can go all historical on you for a bit.

The C# language is Microsoft’s flagship language product for corporate and game programming. It was designed by Anders Hjlsberg in the year 2000 AD. Some of my students claim I am ancient, so I figured I’d clarify by stating that it is, in fact, AD and not BC. The language was submitted and approved as a standardized language via the European Computer...