Practicing and exploring

Let's now test your knowledge and understanding by trying to answer some questions, getting some hands-on practice, and exploring with deeper research into the topics covered throughout this chapter.

Exercise 1.1 – Test your knowledge

Try to answer the following questions, remembering that although most answers can be found in this chapter, some online research or code writing will be needed to answer others:

1. Why can a programmer use different languages, for example, C# and F#, to write applications that run on .NET?
2. What do you type at the prompt to create a console app?
3. What do you type at the prompt to build and execute C# source code?
4. What is the Visual Studio Code keyboard shortcut to view Terminal?
5. Is Visual Studio 2019 better than Visual Studio Code?
6. Is .NET Core better than .NET Framework?
7. What is .NET Standard and why is it still important?
8. What is the name of the entry...