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Chapter 1: Getting Started
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Summary
In this chapter you learned how object - oriented programming got its start over four decades ago.
This chapter also showed you how to download and install Visual Studio ’ s C# Express Edition. Finally,
you wrote a simple program to test the installation to make sure it was done correctly. So, now what?
You could immediately proceed to the next chapter and start reading. Not a good idea. Now that you
have a simple program up and running, this is the perfect time to experiment a little. For example,
your program doesn ’ t have any text in the program ’ s title bar. Surely C# provides a property that
enables you to change the title bar. (Hint: It does provide such a property!) Play around with some of the
other properties and see what they do. For example, change the foreground property and see what
happens. Each chapter in this book has a set of exercises at the end of the chapter that you should do
before reading the next chapter. I realize that you ’ re anxious to move on to the next chapter, but resist the
temptation and do the exercises. They ’ ll help crystallize what you ’ ve learned in the current chapter and
better prepare you for the content of the next chapter. You can find the solutions in Appendix A .
Programming should be fun, and some of that fun comes from discovering what happens if you
change this to that. If you see smoke coming out of your computer, don ’ t make that change again.
(Just kidding . . . you can ’ t hurt your computer if you make an incorrect change to a property.)
Experiment and have fun!
ISBN: 978-0-470-26129-3 I Title: Beginning C# 3.0 : An Introduction to Object Oriented Programming I SKU: 9785CH0009874