C# Tutorial Series - Overview

Welcome to the C# Tutorial Series; learn how to code in Microsoft's newly⁽¹⁾ developed programming language for the .NET Framework.

These tutorials are intended for both beginners and well-versed programmers alike. Everything from concepts, to understanding, will be explained in detail. At the end of each lesson, there will be practice problems as well as assignments which incorporate the material for that lesson.

C# is a high-level, general-purpose, and object-oriented programming language. Created together with the .NET Framework, C# brings infinitely many possibilities of applications; everything from being able to create applications for Windows, Web, Business, Microsoft Office, and more (SaaS, ASP.NET, XML).

The C# language is one of the few successful modern-day programming languages that, over the past few years, has risen up amongst its' competition; and in a few more years, will slowly become the most popular and widely-used programming language in the world.

The next lesson, which I'll officially call Part 1 of the series, will go over the installation of the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that we'll be using, followed by a short explanation of the .NET Framework.


^{(1) - The C# Language began development in 1999. In comparison to much older languages such as C#'s predecessor, C++, C# is a very new and well-developed language. It was originally called "Cool," which stood for "C-like Object Oriented Language," but by the time the .NET Framework was publicly announced at the Professional Developers Conference, "Cool" had been renamed to C# and fully integrated with the .NET Framework.}

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