In the workspaces I can only see languages HTML, CSS, Javascript and Python. I want to run C# there so I decided to do something different which was to name my files a .cs file. But my code doesn’t work:
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Also why doesn’t Codecademy in the Learn C# course use _ for names like I was used to when I learnt Python.
Also the Learn C# course currently hasn’t explained why there is this: using System;
or even this: namespace hello_world
or this: class program
or this: static void Main(string[] args)
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Also I don’t really know what those things really do or I don’t understand it.
This is my biggest wonder right now in C#. I am currently 28% through the course but it doesn’t even explain!
It will. They are concepts which are more ingrained in OOP side of C#, which will come later. Essentially, using System is similar to an import statement (except that it is a namespace-I’d recommend reading all of that article, as it explains namespaces far more proficiently than I every could) in that is says the C#, this program will be using the methods are classes in System, which include Console.WriteLine().
namespace hello_world says to the compiler that the current class (class program, I’ll get to that shortly), is within a namespace (like System, but different) called hello_world.
class program creates a class called program. Classes in C# work much like they do in Python, except in C# (pretty much) everything needs to be in a class.
static void Main(string[] args) creates a static void (or rather a function that returns void, or nothing) called Main, which accepts one argument; a string array (like a list in Python, but it can only store strings and has a set length; you’ll learn about them later in the course). In C#, for a program to actually run in the console, it has to have the function. Again, you’ll learn more about this later in the course.
That is because in C#, the naming convention is camel case (camelCase), where the first letter of every word (apart from the first word) is capitalised. In Python, the name convention is snake case (snake_case), where there’s an underscore between words.
That’s probably because the compiler in the workspace isn’t setup for C#, so naming the file .cs won’t make the compiler run it.
It did, I’m at 75 % and I’ve learnt about these things:
Data Types And Variables,
Logic,
Conditionals,
Methods,
Arrays,
Loops,
Classes,
Objects,
Interfaces
and
Inheritance.
