Appendix 1: A Brief Review of OOP Principles in C#

The landscape of programming languages contains hundreds of choices. If you’re reading this book, you have probably come across C# at some point along your journey. For some, C# is the only language they’ve ever learned. For others, it’s the third or fourth. Maybe you develop in C# every day and have for many years, or maybe you’ve just picked it up, and it’s now your new best friend.

I realize that readers will be coming to this book with different levels of experience, different backgrounds, and different career objectives. I used to have a very popular video series published on LinkedIn Learning that was designed to teach C# to beginners. To be honest, this has always been my favorite audience. Teaching software development to newbies is like teaching magic in a jaded world sadly short of vision. I get to see Aha! moments nearly every week with my students at Southern Methodist University, where...